Hi Jon,
first of all, many thanks for your answer. I was so confused that I even didnīt try a stupid find over the maschine. Ok, ... I found the file. My error in reasoning was that I thought I can change in the directory where to recover to after running amrecover with lcd.
Thank you very much for your help!
Sylvia
Sorry for not chopping things down. It looks to me like things worked as they should but that your expectations were not accurate.
Suppose I have a disk-list entry (DLE) of "/foo/bar", the "bar" directory is the "root" of my DLE (amrestore calls it a filesystem).
Suppose I want to recover a file /foo/bar/proj/abc/target, that file gets backed up as "./proj/abc/target" relative to the "root" of my DLE.
However, it comes back from the recovery relative to WHATEVER directory you run amrecover from. I typically run amrecover from a newly created directory, such as /tmp/recover. In that case, the file will recover to /tmp/recover/proj/abc/target, not under /foo/bar. If I really wanted it back in the original place I would have to run amrecover from /foo/bar. I don't like to do that because a human error might trash other things. I like to recover first, then copy to real destination.
I looks like you ran amrecover from the mysql directory:
client2:/var/lib/mysql # /usr/sbin/amrecover bac -s srv -t srv -d
But your DLE was /var:
Trying disk /var ... $CWD '/var/lib/mysql' is on disk '/var' mounted at '/var'. 200 Disk set to /var. /var/lib/mysql WARNING: not on root of selected filesystem, check man-page!
Thus, you were not at the "root of the selected DLE":
Then you asked to recover /var/lib/mysql/fulldump.sql.040930
amrecover> add fulldump.sql.040930
And it seems to have been recovered:
Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? Y ./lib/mysql/fulldump.sql.040930
But, because you were not in /var, but in /var/lib/mysql, it probably came back as /var/lib/mysql/lib/mysql/fulldump.sql.040930. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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