Denys Beauchemin wrote:

> I also hate leaving such a mystery unsolved.  This should make sense
> somehow.  But I am afraid that with the data at hand, it will have to remain
> so.

>>:RESTORE *T;@[log in to unmask]@;/QDX/@/@;DIRECTORY;CREATE;OLDDATE;KEEP

Ever since I joined HP Support in 1990 here in Germany we
always advocated to customers in a reload situation to
do 2 RESTOREs.

1) RESTORE *t;;DIRECTORY
2) RESTORE *t;@[log in to unmask]@;keep;olddate  (maybe add ;create)

I cannot exactly tell why, I just know for certain that it
avoids some oddities.
I searched our databases and found a reason for it, when you
restore from parallel devices (which was apparently not done
in this case).
It is also possible that when you use ;CREATE _and_ ;DIRECTORY
it might only create directories for files on the tape that do
not belong to the directories that were saved onto tape.


Goetz.

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