canot browse a specific folder when trying to restore

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Hello everyone,
using networker for win 7.4.2 and i want to restore a folder which is a part of a successful backup but when i try to browse for the folder i get no files and subfolders in that folder. the folder name containst the "&" could that be a problem? is there any other way how can i browse the data on the tape or something like that?

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PeterBen

amediratta · Answer

& should not be a problem. Did you check nsrinfo/mminfo commands to confirm whether the folder got backed up with all files & fodlers. There could be some directive or .nsr,.dir file which might not have let the folder get backed up properly.

ble1 · Answer

I agree with Anuj that & should not matter (even it is not really recommended to use it) so I did a small test and it works for me:
C:\>nsrinfo hcrvelin
scanning client `hcrvelin' for all savetimes from the backup namespace
C:\tmp1\foo&bar\7.2.2 Jumbo.pdf, date=1224004962 14.10.2008 19:22:42
C:\tmp1\foo&bar\7.2.2.pdf, date=1224004962 14.10.2008 19:22:42
C:\tmp1\foo&bar\7.3.1.pdf, date=1224004962 14.10.2008 19:22:42
C:\tmp1\foo&bar\7.3.2.pdf, date=1224004962 14.10.2008 19:22:42
C:\tmp1\foo&bar\7.3.3.pdf, date=1224004962 14.10.2008 19:22:42
C:\tmp1\foo&bar\, date=1224004962 14.10.2008 19:22:42
C:\tmp1\, date=1224004962 14.10.2008 19:22:42
C:\, date=1224004962 14.10.2008 19:22:42
/, date=1224004962 14.10.2008 19:22:42
C:\foo&bar\7.2.2 Jumbo.pdf, date=1224004894 14.10.2008 19:21:34
C:\foo&bar\7.2.2.pdf, date=1224004894 14.10.2008 19:21:34
C:\foo&bar\7.3.1.pdf, date=1224004894 14.10.2008 19:21:34
C:\foo&bar\7.3.2.pdf, date=1224004894 14.10.2008 19:21:34
C:\foo&bar\7.3.3.pdf, date=1224004894 14.10.2008 19:21:34
C:\foo&bar\, date=1224004894 14.10.2008 19:21:34
C:\, date=1224004894 14.10.2008 19:21:34
/, date=1224004894 14.10.2008 19:21:34
17 objects found

C:\>recover
Current working directory is C:\
recover> ll
0 d 0 14.10.2008 19:20 foo&bar\
0 d 0 14.10.2008 19:20 tmp1\
recover> cd foo&bar
recover> ll
0 - 32859 17.10.2007 7.2.2 Jumbo.pdf
0 - 41437 17.10.2007 7.2.2.pdf
0 - 36180 17.10.2007 7.3.1.pdf
0 - 63165 17.10.2007 7.3.2.pdf
0 - 63739 17.10.2007 7.3.3.pdf
recover> cd ..
recover> cd tmp1
recover> ll
0 d 0 14.10.2008 19:20 foo&bar\
recover> cd foo&bar
recover> ll
0 - 32859 17.10.2007 7.2.2 Jumbo.pdf
0 - 41437 17.10.2007 7.2.2.pdf
0 - 36180 17.10.2007 7.3.1.pdf
0 - 63165 17.10.2007 7.3.2.pdf
0 - 63739 17.10.2007 7.3.3.pdf
recover> q

C:\>

You should really check with mminfo if that backup was correct (or perhaps you didn't change browsetime to correct value).

ble1 · Answer

Hi Anuj,Directives do not apply for restore.

PeterBen · Answer

the backup of the whole cluster resopurce disk was successfull. i have arranged a backupo of the folder i am missing yesterday and i got a 10 KB backup of that folder only(No full backups of this save set were found in the media database; performing a full backup). the folder contains gigabytes of data
the effective permissions of the user running the networker services are ok for that folder as well as for others which are backed up successfuly. i have ran the nsrck with level 5 before the backup and the result is the same.

maybe i have found the reason of it. the folder is a subst of a different drive

dpinink_silva · Answer

maybe i have found the reason of it. the folder is a
subst of a different drive

Wow, it's a long since I last saw anyone using subst

AFIAK, subst will create a drive that points to the specified folder, can it do other way? Anyway, if the folder is a "link" to another folder, probably Nw will only backup the folder, not its contents. But if there's a drive pointing to this folder, that should not be the problem.

Try to run save -vvv from the client side to see if you get any error or warning messages.

ble1 · Answer

Yup, I would expect same behaviour as with DFS....

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