On Thursday 20 July 2006 22:39, Frank Smith wrote: > Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 at 9:59pm, Anne Wilson wrote > > > >> On Thursday 20 July 2006 21:44, Frank Smith wrote: > >>> Keep in mind that if you restore a directory it will clear the dest > >>> dir before the restore, so newer files will disappear. It's safest > >>> to always restore to a scratch dir and move the files afterwards. > >> > >> That's what I want to do. How do I tell it where to put the recovered > >> file? > > > > It goes into $CWD from which you launched amrecover. > > If you forget to change to your desired destination directory before > starting amrecover, you can use the lcd command to change to another > destination directory within amrecover before you give the extract > command. Sometimes useful if you have spent some time picking and > choosing files before remembering you're not where you want them > restored to and don't want to start over. > Thanks to all who have responded, on and off-list. I'm almost there, in that I have successfully recovered a file, but I'm still having problems with directing the file to where I want it. This was my latest attempt:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda-2.5.0-20060323]# cd /home/anne/Documents/recover [EMAIL PROTECTED] recover]# amrecover AMRECOVER Version 2.5.0-20060323. Contacting server on borg ... 220 borg AMANDA index server (2.5.0-20060323) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to today (2006-07-21) 200 Working date set to 2006-07-21. Scanning /tmp/dumps... 200 Config set to Daily. 200 Dump host set to borg. Trying disk /home ... $CWD '/home/anne/Documents/recover' is on disk '/home' mounted at '/home'. 200 Disk set to /home. Invalid directory - /home/anne/Documents/recover Why is it invalid? I thought at first it was a permissions problem, but then amrecover is running as root. Anne
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