On Wednesday 07 October 2015 20:04:34 Joi L. Ellis wrote: > [snip] > > > Which is sort of what I did Joi. > > > > amrecover bothers me because that is no apparent way to strip the > > leading part of the path from what you want to recover, and from the > > messages it presents, if you don't just give up and use a scratch > > directory, then move what it recovers, I am sure not about to let it > > destroy everything in my home dir just to recover the linuxcnc > > subdir. It may be capable of doing that, but the "are you sure" > > messages just warn that the /home/gene directory will be nuked. > > What backup method is your DLE using? Gnutar strips the leading / off > automatically when you extract from a tarball, so it won't just > overwrite your real stuff automatically. The only way it will > overwrite original anything is if you're sitting in / when you run > amrecover. > > You don't have to recover a whole tree of stuff to test, just select > one unimportant file, and see where it writes it. > > If you tell amrecover you only want the linuxcnc directory, that is > all it will extract, it won't touch anything else. > > It doesn't delete the target directory and then restore into it, if > that's what you're thinking... it will just overwrite the current > file(s) in that target with what you extract from the backup, if the > paths are exact matches. > The are you sure messages says otherwise. I thought I was doing good when I extracted the contents of the linuxcnc directory while locally cd'd to /home/gene/linuxcnc (which I had to create) but when the extraction was finished, I had a sybdir tree of
/home/gene/linuxcnc/gene/linuxcnc/* So I just mv'd them to where they belonged, nuking empty dirs as they emptied out. So it all worked out. This was with deb of what I believe is 3.3.1p1 on the clients, 3 of them, and a locally built 3.3.7p1 on this server. The last several times I tried to build a 4.something was a disaster, so I got out of the "canary in the coal mine" business when my comments about the failures were ignored. I don't mind bleeding a little when the bleeding is stopped by the next tarball download & build. But that hasn't happened for about 2 years now. Thanks Joi. 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>
