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| author | ben <ben@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109> | 2002-08-20 22:13:36 +0000 |
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| committer | ben <ben@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109> | 2002-08-20 22:13:36 +0000 |
| commit | a24c08b18d5e630b44bc4f4d6585fbb90936dd2e (patch) | |
| tree | 1aa3cb0d96c33bffe75142dc52eedd7c17d656e9 | |
| parent | 3a5a6f654c073308fa4131609b37be88303f2f10 (diff) | |
| download | rdiff-backup-a24c08b18d5e630b44bc4f4d6585fbb90936dd2e.tar.gz | |
Added more explanation to --restore-as-of in RESTORING section.
git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@186 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
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diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 index dc114d4..cc0513b 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 +++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 @@ -458,15 +458,24 @@ see the section). The /usr.backup/local directory was selected, because that is the directory containing the current version of /usr/local. .PP -The second way to do this would be to find the corresponding increment -file. It would be in the /backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/usr -directory, and its name would be something like -"local.2002-11-09T12:43:53-04:00.dir" where the time indicates it is -from 3 days ago. Note that the increment files all end in ".diff", -".snapshot", ".dir", or ".missing", where ".missing" just means that -the file didn't exist at that time (finally, some of these may be -gzip-compressed, and have an extra ".gz" to indicate this). Then -running: +Note that the option to +.B --restore-as-of +always specifies an exact time. (So "3D" refers to the instant 36 +hours before the present.) If there was no backup made at that time, +rdiff-backup restores the state recorded for the previous backup. For +instance, in the above case, if "3D" is used, and there are only +backups from 2 days and 4 days ago, /usr/local as it was 4 days ago +will be restored. +.PP +The second way to restore files involves finding the corresponding +increment file. It would be in the +/backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/usr directory, and its name would +be something like "local.2002-11-09T12:43:53-04:00.dir" where the time +indicates it is from 3 days ago. Note that the increment files all +end in ".diff", ".snapshot", ".dir", or ".missing", where ".missing" +just means that the file didn't exist at that time (finally, some of +these may be gzip-compressed, and have an extra ".gz" to indicate +this). Then running: .PP .RS rdiff-backup /backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/usr/local.<time>.dir /usr/local.old |