Bruno Negr�o wrote: > [ lost a lot of files because amrecover removed them ]
Because I was 98% sure I did restores into a directory without amrecover erasing files, I tried a test. And indeed, when being careful, amanda/tar does not existing files/directories.
I came to the conclusion that it is indeed because the directory "." was added to the extraction list. Adding "." means restore this directory as it was, overwriting existing files, and removing newer files.
However, the dangerous thing it seems is that "add *" also adds files beginning with a dot, and the directory "." itself too. If I remove dir "." from the extraction list, no files in that directory were deleted.
Conclusion: maybe "add *" should not add "." by default. What about dot-files? What about "add .*"? Proposal: "." should never be added except when mentioned explicitly.
Adding warnings to amrecover is fine, as long as you don't create a habit of ignoring it by asking too many times: C:> del file.txt Are you sure? y/n
Below is my test. I added my comments with lines beginning with '##'.
# cd /space/tmp/recovertst # ls -l drwxr-xr-x 2 paul staff 512 Sep 23 13:41 dir1 drwxr-xr-x 2 paul staff 512 Sep 23 13:41 dir2 drwxr-xr-x 2 paul staff 512 Sep 23 13:41 dir3 -rw-r--r-- 1 paul staff 704 Sep 23 13:41 file1 -rw-r--r-- 1 paul staff 13 Sep 23 13:41 file2 -rw-r--r-- 1 paul staff 0 Sep 23 13:41 file3 # amrecover AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p1. Contacting server on amandahost ... 220 rivaner AMANDA index server (2.4.4p1) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to today (2003-09-23) 200 Working date set to 2003-09-23. 200 Config set to daily. 200 Dump host set to sunny. Trying disk /space ... $CWD '/space/tmp/restoretst' is on disk '/space' mounted at '/space'. 200 Disk set to /space. Invalid directory - /space/tmp/restoretst ## Warning number one; not reliable because if the directory ## you are in, is a DLE, there is no warning. amrecover> sethost metalix amrecover> setdisk / amrecover> setdate 2003-08-27 amrecover> ls 2003-08-27 . 2003-08-27 .Xauthority 2003-08-27 .bash_history ... amrecover> add * Added dir / at date 2003-08-27 Added /.Xauthority Added /.bash_history ... ## here we see that . (translated as / is in the list!!!) amrecover> delete . Deleted dir / at date 2003-08-27 amrecover> list ... ## just verifying and / is indeed gone. amrecover> extract
Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host amandahost. The following tapes are needed: DAILY-12
Restoring files into directory /space/tmp/restoretst Continue [?/Y/n]? y ## Here is the warning, maybe add here that if not empty ## files could be removed + overwritten.
Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host amandahost. Load tape DAILY-12 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? y ... ### restoring files here... amrecover> exit 200 Good bye. # ls -l ... drwxrwxr-x 5 root sys 512 Apr 19 1999 devices drwxr-xr-x 2 paul staff 512 Sep 23 13:41 dir1 drwxr-xr-x 2 paul staff 512 Sep 23 13:41 dir2 drwxr-xr-x 2 paul staff 512 Sep 23 13:41 dir3 drwxr-xr-x 28 root sys 3072 Sep 23 13:47 etc drwxrwxr-x 2 root sys 512 Apr 19 1999 export -rw-r--r-- 1 paul staff 704 Sep 23 13:41 file1 -rw-r--r-- 1 paul staff 13 Sep 23 13:41 file2 -rw-r--r-- 1 paul staff 0 Sep 23 13:41 file3 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Jan 28 2003 home drwxr-xr-x 9 root sys 512 Sep 23 13:45 kernel ...
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