I have a client that has a (to me anyway) 'strange' scenario: "Think about this scenario. Day 1: Directory x has files, a, b & c. Amanda does a full backup Day 2: rm file a. Amanda does a differential backup Day 3: rm file b. Amanda does a differential backup, Day 4: Directory x has only file c. We remove Directory x. And restore Directory x. . From what you are saying, the restored Directory would have files a, b & c. I would expect to restore Directory x with only file c -- the state of the directory upon the last amanda backup."
Question: what will be in Directory x after doing an amrecover of Directory x? Will files a and b be restored or not? And why or why not? What is considered the correct answer to this partitular thought exercise? And why? As a long time computer user *my* expectation would be for Directory x to have all three files, a, b & c in it after the recover. Is my expectation wrong? Why? Note: this is *separate* from a full restore in the event of a disk crash. Side question: would the above answers *change* if the backups were done with gnutar instead of dump? -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments
