> On May 1, 2017, at 2:38 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > On Monday 01 May 2017 13:55:09 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > >>> On Apr 30, 2017, at 11:11 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> >>> 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.
No, I didn’t intend the space except to make clear that there was nothing after the dirname. Sorry to confuse the issue. Deb > >> 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> >
