Christoffer Dahl Petersen wrote:

I should recover some files from a directory, but I can't get into the directory. The path is: /home/files/\ \ MAGS/ or "/home/files/ MAGS/", here is what I do:

#amrecover daily
amrecover> setdisk /home/files/\ \ MAGS
Mount point "\" invalid - must start with /
Invalid command - parse error
amrecover>

How can I do that - PLEASE HELP - I'm about to be killed by my boss

First don't panic.  Being killed by your boss is not that bad as it
sounds :-)

Then, yes indeed, amrecover has trouble with spaces (or other strange
chars in the name).

You're also confusing DLE names (setdisk) and subdirectories.


Workaround:

        setdisk /home/files   (or whatever your DLE is named)
        cd *MAGS        (or "??MAGS": use a wildcard as args to cd)

Workaround nr 2:

        amrestore -p ... | tar -xvf - './  MAGS/some/file'

(While panicking, it is maybe wiser to restore into a temporary
empty directory to avoid overwriting critical files.)




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