Greets.

I've got an odd thing going on with a recovery I'm doing where old files are 
recovered instead of 
the current file. The example below talks about the /etc directory which is 
part of the / saveset of 
my RHEL4u3 box. I'm running 7.3 client and server. 

In the recover shell I can add the entire /etc/ directory for recovery like so:

   [root@dotbak tmp]# recover -c imap -s dotbak
   recover: Current working directory is /var/tmp/
   recover> relocate /var/tmp
   recover> add -q /etc
   2245 file(s) marked for recovery

When I use the versions command I can see the most recent Apr 3 backup of 
/etc/hosts is 
selected, which has a file date of March 25th. (Output below) Note the + sign 
by the file name, this 
is the file I expect to end up on disk. However, after running 'recover' I end 
up with the Feb 18th 
version of this file, not the March 25th version. Not only does the recovered 
file date confirm this, 
but the contents of the file do not reflect the changes I expect to see in the 
March 25th version.

If instead of doing "add -q /etc/" I do "add -q /etc/hosts" then Networker does 
correctly recover 
the April 3rd version of /etc/hosts! 

Any help on this? Anyone seen similar? 

    recover> versions /etc/hosts
    Versions of `/etc/hosts':

   8 -rw-r--r-- root     root          263 Mar 25 20:03 +hosts
     save time:  Mon Apr  3 15:10:32 2006
      location:  ANG715L1 at /dev/nst0

   8 -rw-r--r-- root     root          330 Feb 18 16:35  hosts
     save time:  Fri Mar 24 22:31:15 2006
      location:  ANG716L1 at /dev/nst3

   8 -rw-r--r-- root     root          330 Feb 18 16:35  hosts
     save time:  Thu Mar 23 22:31:16 2006
      location:  ANG714L1 at 4560SLX

   8 -rw-r--r-- root     root          330 Feb 18 16:35  hosts
     save time:  Wed Mar 22 22:31:39 2006
      location:  ANG714L1 at 4560SLX

   8 -rw-r--r-- root     root          330 Feb 18 16:35  hosts
     save time:  Tue Mar 21 22:32:19 2006
      location:  ANG714L1 at 4560SLX

    Display more versions of `/etc/hosts' [y]? n

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Scott Russell
IBM Linux Technology Center, System Admin

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