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Title: Experienced Flexbackup user advice required
Post by: gbentley on November 24, 2004, 03:36:59 PM

Hi All,

I am having some problem trying to get Flexbackup to restore entire folders.

I am using the filelist method and can easily restore individual files or indeed a list of them using this method.

From the docs I read it that, if the file list contains directory names, then the restore will re-create the directories and the files in them.

Thus my filelist has ;

/userdata/steve

What happens is that the directories userdata and subdirectory steve are indeed recreated however, not the files or subdirectories of steve ?

Should I be putting something like;

/userdata/steve/*

And advice appreciated !

Thanks !

Title: Experienced Flexbackup user advice required
Post by: wyron on November 24, 2004, 03:54:07 PM

First of all, read Darrells howto: http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/mitel/howto/flexbackup-howto.html
That will help you - it was of material help to me, anyway.

Title: Experienced Flexbackup user advice required
Post by: gbentley on November 24, 2004, 04:03:19 PM

Did already and it does suggest that a subdirectory
list with no trailing slash will restore the entire
subdirectory.

Only here, it doesnt - just creates the named folders and thats it ?

ie filelist says /userdata/steve

result /userdata/steve is created (but nothing else)

Thanks for the reply tho :)

Title: Experienced Flexbackup user advice required
Post by: gbentley on November 24, 2004, 04:51:27 PM

Just thought - does the filelist have to be non dos eof's ?

I went and named it filelist.txt and I suspect the client has been editting it with notepad from the Samba share.