On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 at 12:35pm, Galen Johnson wrote > I also have an issue with recover in that it deletes files when the > incremental is restored. I can almost understand why. It seems that if > the files aren't included in the incremental (and they won't be if they > haven't changed) the tar command seems to assume that the files have > been removed and deletes them to have the directory appear to be in the > "same state" as it thinks it was. Anyone else run into this? Is there > some subtle configuration I'm missing?
Not that I'm aware of, but this is why I always amrecover into a temporary space, and then move over the files I really wanted to recover. Similarly for smb restores. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
