On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:22:21AM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> On 2006-04-04 06:12, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:34:37PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote:
> >
> >I was hoping that was the case and that you weren't restoring specific 
> >files.
> >Amanda, at least with gnutar, restores to the state "as of a specified 
> >date".
> >For a file, this is easy to visualize, what ever were the contents of that
> >file.  In this case the "file" was a directory and it was being restored to
> >the state it was on the specified date.  So files now missing had to be
> >restored, files different had to be changed, and files not present then
> >had to be deleted.
> >
> >>I now realize that I taught amanda would restore WITHOUT DELETING or
> >>overwriting files, which is not the case. I mean, I realize that if a
> >>file had been modified this morning in that directory, the restore
> >>would have restored an older version of the file...
> 
> I wouldn't expect anything other.
> 
> 
> >>
> >>It would be fun to have an option to overwrite "only if newer" or to
> >>prevent deleting. I don't know if gnu tar has such options. But it
> >>would be nice. That's the kind of thing that would be nice to have in
> >>a GUI.
> 
> But modifying amrecover to omit "." from the expansion of "*", just
> as the shell, would already be a lot better.
> 
> 
> >
> >If gnutar has such extract options, perhaps you might want to submit
> >an RFE.
> 
> And optionally add the gnutar flags:
> 
>   --keep-old-files    don't replace existing files when extracting
>   --keep-newer-files  don't replace existing files that are newer than
>                       their archive copies

The latter is not a 1.13.X option.

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