Even though I usually avoid using GUIs for recoveries*, given my main workstation is a Mac, I don’t have the option of using a NetWorker GUI for personal recoveries anyway.<\/p>\n
Over time I’ve become one of those users that many Unix sysadmins dislikes \u2013 I name files and folders with prefixes including:<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
and<\/p>\n
#<\/p>\n
Heck, I even use ? and ? as directory prefixes.<\/p>\n
It caught me by surprise then when I tried to recover a directory called “-Proposal”. My natural inclination was to go to the parent directory of “-Proposal” and type:<\/p>\n
recover> add -Proposal<\/p>\n
usage: add [-q] [filename] – add `filename’ to list of files to be recovered<\/p>\n
As you can see, that didn’t particularly work.
\nNor did the following:<\/p>\n
recover> add — -Proposal<\/p>\n
usage: add [-q] [filename] – add `filename’ to list of files to be recovered<\/p>\n
Nor did:<\/p>\n
recover> add ‘-Proposal’<\/p>\n
usage: add [-q] [filename] – add `filename’ to list of files to be recovered<\/p>\n
As you can imagine, it was starting to get a little bit frustrating.<\/p>\n
To cut a long story short, in a scenario where you need to recover a directory that starts with a dash, you need to do something along the lines of the following:<\/p>\n
None of these are ideal solutions, but they do work. I hope, if you need to recover such a directory, you manage to stumble across this tip or you remember it – there are few things worse than worrying that something you really<\/em> need to recover seems an impossibility.<\/p>\n — Even though I usually avoid using GUIs for recoveries*, given my main workstation is a Mac, I don’t have the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[38,788],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networker","tag-38","tag-recover"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\n* If you can’t turn off a file-by-file selection when you’re adding 10,000,000 files, a GUI is painful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"