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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-56","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7671,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/7671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\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":"