| ## Restoring Merged CDS Directories You can use the dcecp program's link delete and directory merge commands to restore deleted directories and their contents to your namespace. First run the link delete command to remove the soft links in the former source location, then use the directory merge command to append the copy of the directory back under its former parent directory. If the directory has slave replicas, use the directory create command to create a new replica of the directory in each of the clearinghouses from which the directory was deleted. Remember that the directory merge command affects only directories and their contents. It does not copy clearinghouses or their associated clearinghouse object entries and therefore cannot be used to restore clearinghouses or to account for discrepancies in information among individual replicas resident on different clearinghouses. Furthermore, the directory information in a particular location may have changed since the time of the original merge operation. ##