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nwrecover want to recover far more files than I selected
I selected about 100 files in a directory for nwrecover, maybe 20GB. When it starts it says it wants to recover 60GB and over 7000 files. However only about 100 files were checked.
This is 8.0.1. I've been unable to get Networker support to talk to me because it's EOL (and I've been a Networker user for over 20 years). So any help is *very* much appreciated.
wlee
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August 16th, 2017 04:00
> 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.
avhays
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August 16th, 2017 06:00
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?
wlee
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August 16th, 2017 08:00
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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bingo.1
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August 16th, 2017 09:00
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.
avhays
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August 16th, 2017 09:00
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.
avhays
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August 16th, 2017 09:00
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.
avhays
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August 16th, 2017 09:00
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.
avhays
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August 17th, 2017 05:00
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.
wlee
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August 17th, 2017 08:00
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
recover> cd c:\temp
recover> dir
8/17/2017 10:34 AM
8/17/2017 10:35 AM
8/17/2017 10:35 AM
recover> cd dir1
recover> dir
8/17/2017 10:29 AM 0 a1.txt
8/17/2017 10:29 AM 0 a2.txt
8/17/2017 10:30 AM 16 b1.txt
8/17/2017 10:29 AM 0 b2.txt
5/22/2017 11:08 AM 90769 backupUpgradeLicense.png
8/17/2017 10:30 AM 0 c1.txt
8/17/2017 10:29 AM 0 c2.txt
8/17/2017 10:30 AM 0 d1.txt
8/17/2017 10:29 AM 0 d2.txt
8/17/2017 10:30 AM 0 e1.txt
8/17/2017 10:29 AM 0 e2.txt
6/2/2017 11:24 AM 33483 error.JPG
8/17/2017 10:30 AM 0 f1.txt
8/17/2017 10:29 AM 0 f2.txt
4/6/2017 10:23 AM 174578 FS_static failed.docx
recover> add a*
2 file(s) marked for recovery
recover> list
C:\temp\dir1\a1.txt @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
C:\temp\dir1\a2.txt @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
2 file(s) marked for recovery
recover> cd ..\dir2
recover> add b*
5 file(s) marked for recovery
recover> cd ..\dir3
recover> add e*
8 file(s) marked for recovery
recover> list
C:\temp\dir1\a1.txt @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
C:\temp\dir1\a2.txt @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
C:\temp\dir2\b1.txt @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
C:\temp\dir2\b2.txt @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
C:\temp\dir2\backupUpgradeLicense.png @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
C:\temp\dir3\e1.txt @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
C:\temp\dir3\e2.txt @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
C:\temp\dir3\error.JPG @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
8 file(s) marked for recovery
recover> relocate c:\temp\recover-folder
recover> volumes
Volumes needed (all on-line):
testvolume at backup
recover> destination
recover files into C:\temp\recover-folder
recover> list
C:\temp\dir1\a1.txt @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
C:\temp\dir1\a2.txt @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
C:\temp\dir2\b1.txt @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
C:\temp\dir2\b2.txt @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
C:\temp\dir2\backupUpgradeLicense.png @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
C:\temp\dir3\e1.txt @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
C:\temp\dir3\e2.txt @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
C:\temp\dir3\error.JPG @ 8/17/2017 10:41:55 AM
8 file(s) marked for recovery
recover> recover
Recovering 8 files within C:\temp\ into C:\temp\recover-folder
Volumes needed (all on-line):
testvolume at backup
Total estimated disk space needed for recover is 125 KB.
Requesting 8 file(s), this may take a while...
Recover start time: 8/17/2017 10:50:32 AM
Requesting 1 recover session(s) from server.
91651:recover: Successfully established AFTD DFA session for recovering save-set ID '9808694'.
C:\temp\recover-folder\dir1\a1.txt
C:\temp\recover-folder\dir1\a2.txt
C:\temp\recover-folder\dir2\b1.txt
C:\temp\recover-folder\dir2\b2.txt
C:\temp\recover-folder\dir2\backupUpgradeLicense.png
C:\temp\recover-folder\dir3\e1.txt
C:\temp\recover-folder\dir3\e2.txt
C:\temp\recover-folder\dir3\error.JPG
Received 8 file(s) from NSR server `client.host.com'
Recover completion time: 8/17/2017 10:50:40 AM
recover> quit
C:\Program Files\EMC NetWorker\nsr>
bingo.1
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August 17th, 2017 15:00
FYI - nwrecover has been removed wih NW 8.1.