On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 at 12:35pm, Galen Johnson wrote

> I also have an issue with recover in that it deletes files when the 
> incremental is restored.  I can almost understand why.  It seems that if 
> the files aren't included in the incremental (and they won't be if they 
> haven't changed) the tar command seems to assume that the files have 
> been removed and deletes them to have the directory appear to be in the 
> "same state" as it thinks it was.  Anyone else run into this?  Is there 
> some subtle configuration I'm missing?

Not that I'm aware of, but this is why I always amrecover into a temporary 
space, and then move over the files I really wanted to recover.  Similarly 
for smb restores.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University