Re: trouble restoring databases

[Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 03:14, Larry Siden wrote:
> Nope, MyPilot/0 is clean of any sub-dirs.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Hang on...  I didn't read your mail closely enough.

You say you are running:
pilot-xfer -r MyPilot

This means that pilot-xfer expects the MyPilot directory to contain
nothing but files that can be installed onto your palm.  If you have a
directory called MyPilot/0, that cannot be installed onto your palm, and
pilot-xfer will complain.

If all your files are actually in MyPilot/0, then you have to run
pilot-xfer -r MyPilot/0.  If all your files are in MyPilot, and the
'MyPilot/0' subdirectory contains stuff you don't need to restore, then
move the MyPilot/0 directory out of MyPilot.

Matt

> 
> 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
> > 
> > Matt Davey              Confucius say: To understand recursion, you must
> > mcdavey mrao cam ac uk             first understand recursion.
> >