On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote:
> AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p3. Contacting server on localhost ...
> amrecover: cannot connect to localhost: Connection refused
> 
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/amrecover -C test -s number3
> 
> AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p3. Contacting server on number3 ...
> 220 number3 AMANDA index server (2.4.5) ready.
> 200 Access OK
> Setting restore date to today (2006-04-05)
> 200 Working date set to 2006-04-05.
> Scanning /space/amandahold/test...
> 200 Config set to test.
> 200 Dump host set to maigret.
> Trying disk /export ...
> Trying disk hda3 ...
> Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD '/export/users/maigret'
> 
> I am wondering about the last line.  I am in the same directory that
> is specified in the disklist:


STRONG RECOMMENDATION  --  DON'T DO THAT!!

I.e. don't recover to the directory from which the files were
originally backed up.  Recover to an empty directory then move
the files to their destination.

Reasons/possibilities

  - file you have is ok, older version is better, but what if the
    older version did not save properly, or you pick the wrong archive,
    you just trashed a pretty good version of your file

  - you recover a directory to its previous state.  but some files were
    added and/or modified since the backup.  They are now deleted or
    overwritten.

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