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Question..

I'm using rdiff-backup 1.0.0 (no patches)
The backups were ONLY created with 1.0.0

For machines A, B and C,
- I've done a backup from A to B
- then I'm doing a restore from B to C

The first restore from B to C is transfering every file from A's backup
to the system, C (I think every file.. looks like it at least)
Then when it's done if I immediately do the same restore it copies
everything again.. as if it's not seeing that all the files are then
same as on the destination.

Running on B, the restore command line looks like:

rdiff-backup -v5 --print-statistics --exclude-device-files
--exclude-filelist ../../bin/exclude.lst --exclude-globbing-filelist
../../bin/exclude.additionally_when_restoring.lst --restore-as-of 0D
--force . root < at > C::/

Is --force the problem? I thought that makes it delete on the
destination what didn't exist on the source which is how I want it to
behave.

Any ideas?

Please Help,
Davy

Sorry.. my bad.. dumb user error.. turns out my restore script was using
a backup tree from an older version of rdiff-backup

So it's working great!

-- Davy

Davy Durham wrote:

Question..

I'm using rdiff-backup 1.0.0 (no patches)
The backups were ONLY created with 1.0.0

For machines A, B and C,
- I've done a backup from A to B
- then I'm doing a restore from B to C

The first restore from B to C is transfering every file from A's
backup to the system, C (I think every file.. looks like it at least)
Then when it's done if I immediately do the same restore it copies
everything again.. as if it's not seeing that all the files are then
same as on the destination.
Running on B, the restore command line looks like:

rdiff-backup -v5 --print-statistics --exclude-device-files
--exclude-filelist ../../bin/exclude.lst --exclude-globbing-filelist
../../bin/exclude.additionally_when_restoring.lst --restore-as-of 0D
--force . root < at > C::/

Is --force the problem? I thought that makes it delete on the
destination what didn't exist on the source which is how I want it to
behave.

Any ideas?

Please Help,
Davy




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On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:10:50 -0500
Davy Durham <pubaddr2 < at > davyandbeth.com> wrote:

The first restore from B to C is transfering every file from A's
backup to the system, C (I think every file.. looks like it at least)
Then when it's done if I immediately do the same restore it copies
everything again.. as if it's not seeing that all the files are then
same as on the destination.

No compare is done on a restore. It's exactly that: a restore that
overwrites the destination if --force is specified (otherwise it
expects to create a new directory to restore into).

--
Keith Edmunds

Davy Durham <pubaddr2 < at > davyandbeth.com>
wrote the following on Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:39:10 -0500
Sorry.. my bad.. dumb user error.. turns out my restore script was using
a backup tree from an older version of rdiff-backup

So it's working great!

Hmm, well in theory it shouldn't matter which version of rdiff-backup
you made the backups with, when restoring it should only overwrite
files that need it.

But since you seem satisfied I won't inquire further :)


--
Ben Escoto