On Monday 01 May 2017 15:53:10 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > 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 > Thanks Deb. Hope you are dry and out of the weather. I didn't say thanks in the prior reply, my bad.
> >> 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> 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>
