Jean-Louis — do you know if one can use the newer versions of tar to recover stuff that was backed up using these “bad” versions of tar? Or does the recording version have to be newer too?
(I.e. maybe Gene could still test using his existing backups. And this would mean that older backups aren’t worthless. ) Deb Baddorf > On May 1, 2017, at 6:02 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Monday 01 May 2017 16:37:11 Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > >> Gene, >> >> Which version of tar are you using? > 1.27.1 > >> Read the thread at >> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg48929.html >> >> Jean-Louis >> > Says 1.29 fixes this. > > I'll have to build it from the tarball, 1.27.1 is the newest in the > wheezy repo's. > > Done, and amcheck seems happy, now we'll see if it runs ok tonight. > > Thanks Jean-Louis. > >> On 30/04/17 10:52 PM, 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? >>> >>> Thank folks. >>> >>> In the meantime I've recovered what I wanted, but it made zero >>> difference, my web site is off the air, claiming the server is alive >>> and well, but no content has been added. But the whole web sites >>> files are all there! >>> >>> I'm lost. >>> >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett >> >> This message is the property of CARBONITE, INC. and may contain >> confidential or privileged information. If this message has been >> delivered to you by mistake, then do not copy or deliver this message >> to anyone. Instead, destroy it and notify me by reply e-mail > > > 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>
