trouble restoring a particular increment

Eric Beversluis via Any discussion of rdiff-backup <[email protected]> Fri, 9 May 2025 08:33:15 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm having trouble restoring a particular increment. The rdiff-backup 
file shows I did a backup on 2025-05-04. Yet:

eric@fedora:/run/media/eric$ sudo rdiff-backup restore --at 2025-05-04 
"run/media/eric/backup 202025-02/XPS-2025-02/var/www/html" /var/www/html
[sudo] password for eric:
WARNING: Server will be called with deprecated command line interface to 
guarantee compatibility. It might lead to a deprecation warning from 
newer rdiff-backup versions. Use '--api-version 201' (or higher) to 
avoid it.
ERROR: Path 'run/media/eric/backup 202025-02/XPS-2025-02/var/www/html' 
couldn't be identified as being within an existing backup repository
ERROR: Action restore failed on step check

Yet that location clearly exists:

eric@fedora:/run/media/eric/backup 2025-02/XPS-2025-02/var/www$ ls -al
total 24
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root  4096 Jan 23 19:00 .
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root  4096 Apr  9 08:18 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  4096 Jan 23 19:00 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 12288 Jan 23 19:00 html

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