Hi,
I'm really hoping someone can explain this mystery!!! This has been
bugging me for a long time now. Maybe there's a simple explanation, and
I'm just missing something.
Why is that sometimes sometimes when you're recovering data, NW rebuilds
the directories in the path, and sometimes it just dumps the final
directory without rebuilding the parent directories? I've seen this
happen with save set recover, recover and nwrecover, too.
For example, if I back up /data/dir1/dir2, and then I recover it as:
recover -s serve -d /relocate_dir -S ssid
I would expect to get /relocate_dir/data/dir1/dir2
Well, sometimes I do, but other times I might just get
/relocate_dir/dir2
Of course, running nsrinfo against the nsavetime value for the affected
ssid *does* show all the path components, but when it comes to
recovering it, I never know what to expect with NW as far as the path
re-creation. Today, I added the following save sets to an NSR client
resource and ran a level full:
/data/old/2001
/data/old/files/a.txt
/data/old/files/b.txt
I then recovered the data on the client as:
recover -s server -d /relocate_dir -S ssid1 -S ssid2 -S ssid3
where ssid1=/data/old/2001; ssid2=/data/old/files/a.txt;
ssid3=/data/old/files/b.txt
Here's what I got:
/relocate_dir/2001
/relocate_dir/files/a.txt
/relocate_dir/files/b.txt
1. Why does it not rebuild 'data/old' ???
However, when I recovered these in two steps as:
recover -s server -d /relocate_dir -S ssid2 -S ssid3
recover -s server -d /relocate_dir -S ssid1
I instead get this:
/relocate_dir/a.txt
/relocate_dir/b.txt
/relocate_dir/2001
2. Why would it drop the 'files' directory?
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