Re: [Dar-support] dar_manager and The Removed File

[Denis C. <dar...@fr...>]

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Philippe Naudin wrote:
> Le ven 17 jun 2011 16:27:56 CEST, Joost Roeleveld a écrit:
> 
>> On Friday 17 June 2011 11:21:37 Philippe Naudin wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to ask dar_manager to restore all the files on the
>>> command line, including the files which are marked as removed in
>>> recent backups, without using "--when" ?
>>> ...
>> Try the following option for "dar" (from the man-page):
>>  -k, --no-deleted   
>>
>> Do not delete files that have been deleted since the backup of reference (file 
>> overwriting can still occur). By default, files that  have  been  destroyed 
>> since  the backup of reference are deleted during restoration, but a warning 
>> is issued before proceeding, except if -w is used. If -n is used, no file will 
>> be deleted (nor overwritten), thus -k is useless when using -n.
> 
> Thanks for your reply,
> 
> I have tried "-kignored", unfortunately without success.
> 
> As I understand it, it is dar_manager who decide to drop the removed
> files, and thus options passed to dar don't have a chance to solve the
> problem.
> 
> (In my first post, I should have mentioned that I am using dar-2.4.0)
> 

Hello,

That's the point. Since release 2.4.0 dar_manager records when a file
exists and when he has been removed (in previous release, dar_manager
ignored deleted files and could not restore a filesystem or a part of it
in the state it had at a given date, however he could restore any file
in its latest version even if it was removed for a while before the
latest backup).

By default restoring file from dar_manager means asking the latest
status of requested files or directories, but you can also specify a
date: in that case dar_manager will fetch each files from archives in
the status they had at that given date (see dar_manager's -w option in
man page for details).

For a particular file that has been removed for a while, you can use
dar_manager's -f option to locate at what time it existed and either
give that date (or a date just before) to dar_manager or directly use
dar on the corresponding differential backup.

There is currently no option in dar_manager to get the previous
behavior, this is a slide effect of a new/better feature ... :-/

Regards,
Denis.
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