Greetings,
I've run into this scenario where a directory of "useful" stuff got deleted (about 7 gigs of "useful" stuff). At any rate, it all appears to be sitting in the hourly.1 snapshot as expected, but now I wonder...
What is the best way to restore it?
I`ve disabled the snapshots while my "tar cf - | tar xpf -" does it's thing, but is there a better way?
I also wonder, since a "mv" blew away the directory in the first place (this is what I was told), can I "mv" the directory right back out of .snapshot?
So what is the BEST snapshot restore method?
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I`ve disabled the snapshots while my "tar cf - | tar xpf -" does it's thing, but is there a better way?
I also wonder, since a "mv" blew away the directory in the first place (this is what I was told), can I "mv" the directory right back out of .snapshot?
So what is the BEST snapshot restore method?
Unfortunately there is no magic way, so you simply have to use your favorite copy command.
The "cp" command does scary things with symlinks and device drivers, so "tar | tar" like you've done, or "find | cpio -pdmv" are better.
Dave
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