I'm guessing here, but it looks like the file name doesn't have a leading
slash in the archive, so you shouldn't put one in your 'add' command.  Try

> amrecover> add lib
                 ^ no slash here

and see what happens.

Good luck!


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On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 06:33:04PM +0100, liam pace wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when I try to recover files with am recover, I get a strange messages saying
> that the directory / file I'm trying to restore is not in archive..
---cut---
> the error I get is:
> 
> amrecover> ls
> 2003-03-11 .
> 2003-03-11 .autofsck
> 2003-03-11 bin/
> 2003-03-11 boot/
> 2003-03-11 bru/
> 2003-03-11 dev/
> 2003-03-11 etc/
> 2003-03-11 home/
> 2003-03-11 initrd/
> 2003-03-11 lib/
> 2003-03-11 lost+found/
> 2003-03-11 misc/
> 2003-03-11 mnt/
> 2003-03-11 opt/
> 2003-03-11 proc/
> 2003-03-11 root/
> 2003-03-11 sbin/
> 2003-03-11 tmp/
> 2003-03-11 usr/
> 2003-03-11 var/
> 2003-03-11 www/
> amrecover> add /lib
> File /lib doesn't exist in directory