Re: trouble restoring databases

[Larry Siden <lsiden gmail com>]

Nope, MyPilot/0 is clean of any sub-dirs.  Thanks for the suggestion.


On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:40:30 +0000, Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 15:55, Larry Siden wrote:
> 
> > After several attempts at this, I decided to restore from backups
> > using pilot-xfer.  These all exist in a directory called ~/MyPilot.
> > I'm guessing that the contents were placed there over time by the
> > backup conduit.  So I ran pilot-xfer -r MyPilot.  Two things:
> > pilot-xfer immediately complains that it can't open the directory
> > MyPilot/0 (believe me, it's there, and I have permission to open it).
> 
> What exactly is the error message?
> 
> One thing to check: are there any sub-directories in MyPilot/0 ?
> If so, move them out of the way.  I think pilot-xfer expects a
> backup directory to have nothing in it except palm-readable files.
> 
> Matt
> 
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> 


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