frecover

[Nobody's Hero]

If I run an frecover with an -xvf and -i. Will it automatically write over the files it finds that are all ready there? Or do I need a special flag?

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

I believe the only flag related to overwrite is -o:

-o Recover the file from the backup media irrespective of
age. Normally frecover does not overwrite an existing
file with an older version of the file.

Pete

[Stanimir]

Hi!
Try -o - option to be sure to overwrite files
already being there.
You also need to use graph-file with -x - option.
Regards.

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

No, xvf doesn't over write the files.
option -o Recover the file from the backup media irrespective of age. Normally frecover does not overwrite an existing file with an older version of the file.