[lug] Restoring backups/scripting help help

[Lee Woodworth]

On 07/10/2011 08:33 PM, logan garbarini wrote:
> Sorry to bother you again, but I keep on getting the same error:
> /home/logan/fix.sh: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `echo'
> /home/logan/fix.sh: line 3: `    echo "$dir"'

Sorry about that. I missed a semicolon in the for loop:

for dir in $(find /multivolume_snapshot -type d); do
   echo "$dir"
   cd "$dir"
     ????
done

> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 8:19 PM, logan garbarini
> <logangarbarini at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, I'll definitely try that.  Just for clarification, Duplicity splits
>> up files into 64kb blocks then archives them in a 1mb  difftar, when you
>> decompress them you get a folder full  of 64kb blocks, which is why you cd
>> into them.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Lee Woodworth <blug-mail at duboulder.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/10/2011 07:26 PM, logan garbarini wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I had a bit of a problem with my computer's drive, which shouldn't have
>>> been
>>>> a problem except I found out that all of my daily backups somehow became
>>>> corrupted.  I used DejaDup, the Gui to duplicity.   It gave me a problem
>>>> with a SHA1 hash mismatch, which after several hours, I decided it was
>>>> hopeless to try to repair all of the messed up archives.  I managed to
>>> find
>>>> these instructions here on how to restore manually:
>>>> https://live.gnome.org/DejaDup/Help/Restore/WorstCase#Restoring_by_Hand
>>> .
>>>> But, I get stuck on the last step, how to recombine every file.  Is
>>> there
>>>> any way to automate the following command for all my directories? I have
>>> 30
>>>> GB of files still not combined.  I know that some data will be corupted
>>> but
>>>> there were only a few of the archives damaged.  Any help would be
>>>> appreciated, thanks in advance...
>>>>
>>>> Example Command:
>>>>
>>>> cd multivolume_snapshot/home/jane/essay.txt
>>>
>>> essay.txt looks like a regular file name. Do you really mean to cd to it?
>>>
>>>> cat * > essay.txt
>>>
>>> Not sure what you are needing to do, but this might suggest a direction
>>> for you:
>>>
>>> for dir in $(find /multivolume_snapshot -type d) do
>>>   echo "$dir"
>>>   cd "$dir"
>>>     ????
>>> done
>>>
>>> If you have more directories than the command line can handle you will
>>> need to
>>> use a pipe/file in a read loop.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>>>
>>>> --Logan Garbarini
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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