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recover in no interactive mode and wildcards
Hello,
we need to recover only some files using wildcard * from a shell script.
We saved all files under directory "/some_path/dir_name" and now we need to recover only some files with name beginning with aaa from that directory via a shell script.
It seems to me that with networker is not possible to use wildcards in recover.
I tried:
/usr/bin/recover -a -t -d /some_path/dir_name/aaa*
and it returns:
67847:recover: Failed to recover files: Nothing to recover
when I set the exact filename not using wildcard, it works.
It is not possible to use wildcards with recover command with no interactive browsing in networker ?
Thanks
Andrea
bingo.1
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June 6th, 2019 08:00
The issue is that you are running linux.
Here you can in fact create files and directories which contain a '*' in their name.
In case of your task I see two possibilities:
- run nsrinfo on that savetime first and filter the exact path names to recover. Then add these names to a recover list.
- restore the whole save set to temp directory and get your files from here.
AndreaBolo
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June 7th, 2019 02:00
Thank you, bingo.1, for your suggestion.
It'a a pity that networker doesn't allow this.
I'll try using some grep with nsrinfo output. It's linux.
I'd like to have a smart and easy way to do this.
When done, I'll post results for future.
Thank you, again.
bingo.1
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June 7th, 2019 13:00
Sorry, but you are wrong. NW in fact would allow it.
As I mentioned, a '*' is a valid character for a Linux file-/dirname he is just wlking through the file index but we will not find it.
AndreaBolo
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June 10th, 2019 06:00
I was referring to the fact that NW doesn't allow to use the char '*' as wildcard in a recover command.
AndreaBolo
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June 12th, 2019 03:00
Thanks to bingo.1's suggestions, I solved using the following.
#how to restore all, previously backed up from client client_name, files beginning with "aaa" under directory "/some_path/dir_name" using a shell script in linux
# search latest nsavetime in time interval between time1 - time2 and set variabile MMINFO_NSAVETIME
MMINFO_NSAVETIME=`/usr/sbin/mminfo -ot -s backup_server -q "savetime>=$time1,savetime<=$time2,client=client_name" -r"name,nsavetime" |tail -1|awk '{print $2}'`
# search from that nsavetime the recover list with file pathname beginning with "/some_path/dir_name/aaa" and output the recover list to file "/tmp/recover_list.txt"
/usr/sbin/nsrinfo -t $MMINFO_NSAVETIME -s backup_server client_name|grep /some_path/dir_name/aaa > /tmp/recover_list.txt
# using the list start to recover files under /another_path. File overwrite is on.
/usr/bin/recover -a -c client_name -s backup_server -t $MMINFO_NSAVETIME -iY -d /another_path -I /tmp/recover_list.txt > /tmp/recovery_file.log
Hope it helps.