No, if you back up /var and are sitting ABOVE /var (i.e. in / I suppose ) it’ll be okay. Otherwise, if you are sitting IN /var and you try to restore /var you’ll get /var/var
Won’t you? That’s the kind of thing I always find. Deb On May 7, 2015, at 2:27 PM, Paul Yeatman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 02:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> Got it, recovery done, but did have to move it all up one level to get it >> in the right place. > > It should be in the right place if you are in the same directory as the > one you are backing up. If you back up /var and are in /var when > restoring, all data should be in the correct location once the restore > is completed. > > Paul >
