On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 03:16:14PM +0100, Francesc Guasch wrote:
> Hi. I restored from amanda before without problems,
> even a full server that crashed.
> 
> Now I'm trying to restore a directory. When I browse
> it from amrecover I see the files that were in the
> date I want to restore it. I mark the directory and
> I do an lcd, then I start the restoring that requires
> 4 tapes.
> 
> When the first tape is finished I see amanda has
> restored many files. It asks for more tapes, so we
> carry on.
> 
> When amanda finishes it has removed most of the files
> it restored from the first tape.
> 
> I can't understand it. If I can see the files from
> amrecover, why does amanda removes it ?

Amrecover restores to the state of the directory as of
a particular date, i.e. the state of the directory at
the time of the dump on that date.

Lots of files may have existed in that directory at
the time of the level 0 (probably the first tape that
amrecover asked for).  But between then and the date
you asked amrecover to restore to, many of those files
may have been deleted.  Thus amrecover must delete them
from the extraction directory to match events between
the level 0 and the date you asked for.

If you don't find what you want, perhaps ask amrecover
for an earlier date.

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