On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:52:30PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: > This morning, someone goofed and destroyed important files in a > directory. My last level 1 backup was from last friday, and another > full dump from last tuesday. > > I then proceeded to run amrecover and recover the files "in place", > that is, I changed to the DLE's root directory before restoring > > While recovering, I've noticed messages telling me that "tar was > deleting files", it looks like tar encoutered files created this > morning (after the "human error") in the DEL and decided to remove > them because they were not on the tape ! > > The net result is that I have LOST data ! > > Next time, I will recover "out of the DLE" and move recovered stuff > after the recover. >
FMI: did you attempt to recover specific files, specific directories, or the entire DLE root? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
