On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:52:30PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote:
> This morning, someone goofed and destroyed important files in a
> directory. My last level 1 backup was from last friday, and another
> full dump from last tuesday.
> 
> I then proceeded to run amrecover and recover the files "in place",
> that is, I changed to the DLE's root directory before restoring
> 
> While recovering, I've noticed messages telling me that "tar was
> deleting files", it looks like tar encoutered files created this
> morning (after the "human error") in the DEL and decided to remove
> them because they were not on the tape !
> 
> The net result is that I have LOST data !
> 
> Next time, I will recover "out of the DLE" and move recovered stuff
> after the recover.
> 

FMI:
did you attempt to recover specific files, specific directories,
or the entire DLE root?

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