nwrecover want to recover far more files than I selected

> When it starts it says it wants to recover 60GB and over 7000 files.  However only about 100 files were checked.

This is because the savesets that it is reading the data from contains that total amount of data and files.  The actual files recovered will be the ones you selected.

Ok I'll try this.  I have a related question- using nwrecover there is a 'find' window I can use to select files based on extensions, if the file contains part of a name, etc.

However I can't find a way to then select all of the files that are found in this window.  All I can do is select each one individually.  Is there a "select all" in this window?

sorry , but with the GUI you can only select one file at a time.

You can use command line recover, and that will allow you to select files in the "current" directory using wildcard characters, and then add to the recover list.  Once you select all the files you want to recover, then start the recovery.

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I am surprised about your reference - nwrecover was a UNIX/Linux based revover GUI which was discontinued some years ago with NW 7.x. Most likely you will not find anybody any more who can answer this question right away. I looked briefly through the 7.0 manpage but could not find any reference how to select multiple files.

Unfortunately, the winworkr (NW User, Windows) GUI can find a file but will not allow you to mark a specific file name or extension.

The Recover windows inside the NW Admin GUI is much better with the search result but it does also not allow you to select multiple files in one step. Multi-steps for multi files.

IMHO the easiest method would be to recover the whole save set to a temp directory and use the standard OS methods to retrieve your specific files from here.

I'm running 8.0.1 and nwrecover is still part of the install on Linux.  It's the only way I've ever recovered files.

I'm also running the Admin Gui on a windows box.  I've never done a recovery from it.

Can someone also tell me why every post I make is delayed for sometimes over an hour because I have to be moderated?  With all the money I pay to EMC every year?  And I hope this post makes it through moderation.

In 20 years of using Networker I've never done a command line recover.  Can you give me a sample command line of what I would use?

Thanks.

Well my last posts were in moderation for over 12 hours.

I'm unable to get support with my issue because I'm running 8.0.1 even though the help I need is not because of any bug with that version.

And the forum has been *very* helpful and that is being made much more difficult for me because of moderation delays.

There is a recovery example that I just performed.  I have backed up three subdirectories, each having the same identical files.

I will select various files from each subdirectory using wildcard (*) character.  I will then specify a directory to recover to, then start the recovery.

C:\>sc qc nsrexecd | findstr /i path

        BINARY_PATH_NAME   : "C:\Program Files\EMC NetWorker\nsr\bin\nsrexecd.exe"

C:\>cd /d "C:\Program Files\EMC NetWorker\nsr"

C:\Program Files\EMC NetWorker\nsr> recover

No index was found for C:\Program Files\EMC NetWorker\nsr\. The current working directory is /.

recover> dir

FYI - nwrecover has been removed wih NW 8.1.