Re: Understanding the rdiff-backup restore syntax

I think I got it--the back slashes indicate that the command continues 
on the next line....?

So if I want to restore '/home/eric/Desktop/FoodLog_2019-22.ods' as of 
2023-09-02T7:58::09-04:00, is this the correct command?

  rdiff-backup restore --increment \
/run/media/eric/Backup_Disk/XPS-2023-03/eric.2023-08-02T07:58:09-04:00.dir/home/eric/Desktop/FoodLog_2019-22.ods 
\
     /home/eric/Desktop/Restored.ods

Thanks.

Eric Beversluis
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On 2/24/25 8:13 PM, Eric Beversluis via Any discussion of rdiff-backup 
wrote:
> I'm trying to learn my way around restoring from rdiff-backup. I'm 
> looking at
> https://rdiff-backup.net/rdiff-backup.1.html#_restoring
>
> I see this sample:
>
> rdiff-backup restore --increment \
>     /backup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/usr/local.{time}.dir \
>     /usr/local.old
>
> What do the back slashes indicate--why are they there?
>
>