Backing up files

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I'm looking for a method to do incremental file backups. I've found rdiff-backup and had a question about it: is it possible todo something along the lines of backup to 25 feb 2012. I know you can specify it like this: rdiff-backup -r 10D host.net::/remote-dir/file /tmp/file which will restore to 10 days ago, but 10 days ago is relative, and I want to restore to a specific date. Is that possible?

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 09 '12 at 08:10

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From: http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/examples.html

But the main advantage of rdiff-backup is that it keeps version history. This command restores host.net::/remote-dir/file as it was 10 days ago into a new location /tmp/file.
rdiff-backup -r 10D host.net::/remote-dir/file /tmp/file
> Other acceptable time strings include 5m4s (5 minutes and 4 seconds) and 2002-03-05 (March 5th, 2002). For more information, see the TIME FORMATS section of the manual page.

answered Mar 09 '12 at 08:10

thinice

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Ouch. How could I even miss that. Thanks very much for pointing that out. – Devator Mar 09 '12 at 08:17
Happens to us all :P – thinice Mar 09 '12 at 14:41

Backing up files

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