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Re: [Networker] How save set recover works? - HELP!!!
2009-10-28 12:01:35
George Sinclair wrote:
A Darren Dunham wrote:
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 07:21:43PM -0400, George Sinclair wrote:
OK, so in this case, even though 2001 is a directory, it's still
treated like a file as far as that rule?
This only applies when relocating, though, not when restoring to the
original location, correct?
As far as I can see, you are correct in both cases. But as I mentioned,
I'm mainly going off the docs here. I haven't really tried to
investigate all the details here recently.
One thing I'm thinking of that I don't see in the docs is that the
"first common parent" can be anywhere if you're doing a normal (files)
recovery, but that it must be above the saveset if you're doing a
saveset recovery.
Darren,
I think where I was confused was in cases in the past where I've used
nwrecover or 'recover' to recover a directory that was part of a backup
for a parent save set. For example, recovering, say, /usr/data/dir1 or
something like that. In that case, /usr was the save set, so it rebuilds
more of the path and not just 'dir1'. BUT, if dir1 had been backed up
itself as: '/usr/data/dir1' then it might just recover dir1. I may not
be explaining it right, but I think I see how it works now.
So I tried to use nwrecover, as opposed to 'recover -s ssid', to recover
that data that I'd been playing around with the other day, and again, it
recovered just the directories themselves, but again, these were
explicitly backed up that way like: '/data/old1/2001', /data/old1/2002',
etc. as opposed to all being captured under a single backup for /data.
If that had been the case then I expect that it would have rebuilt part
of that path.
George
Yeah, they don't really cover that nor do they overtly state that it
applies to directories, they just use the term 'files', but of course,
in the Unix world, a directory is a file, but that's from the OS
perspective.
Thanks for all your help, Darren!
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