On Monday 01 May 2017 13:55:09 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > On Apr 30, 2017, at 11:11 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > On Sunday 30 April 2017 23:46:42 Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 10:52:00PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Greetings all; > >>> > >>> The last time I used amrecover I had to make a tempdir on the same > >>> disk as the stuff I wanted to recover was on. thats ok because I > >>> figure I can always copy it back to where it goes. > >>> > >>> The last time I ran it, I added a directory and it recovered > >>> everything under that directory. > >>> > >>> Tonight I add a directory, have it do the extract, and it makes an > >>> empty directory in the designated scratch area. huh? wth? > >>> > >>> I want everything in that directory, as it existed on a setdate of > >>> 2017-04-15, what am I doing wrong? > >> > >> That's the only way I've recovered, last time about a month ago. > >> > >> Wha did you do wrong??? With no detail we can't say. But it > >> wasn't the directory approach. > >> > >> jl > > > > Server is 3.3.7p1, as is amrecover, the rest of the clients are a > > couple versions newer, straight out of the wheezy or jessie repo's. > > > > I did try to build 3.4.4 here a couple times, but it won't build, > > and a posting quite a while back about it didn't get a reply, so I > > went back and rebuilt 3.3.7p1, with the same old gh.cf script & till > > now its just worked. > > > > I found that I could get the directories contents, but nothing > > beyond, if I "add dirname/*" but "dirname/*/*" was rejected. So I > > plowed all 3 rows of corn repeating that till I had what I wanted, > > but it didn't fix my web page. The server claims its working but no > > content has been added. And theres about 7 gigabytes just sitting > > there. I guess I'll have to admit I'm a dummy, and go find my copy > > of the "html for dummy's" book I bought quite a few installs ago. :) > > What do you get with “add dirname “ with nothing after it?
an empty directory by that name. But is the space above important, I don't recall I used one. > That has always restored the whole directory, and all of its contents, > for me. I’ve never tried adding anything after the dirname. If I > want single files (or a bunch of files) I CD into that directory, > and add “ abc* ” or some such. Still just a single “Add” term, > with no slashes in it. > > Deb Baddorf > > > Cheers Jon, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
