[plug] Restore

Bernard Blackham bernard at blackham.com.au
Tue Nov 16 07:10:00 WST 2004


On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:03:38AM +0800, Marc wrote:
> #restore -i -A workdir -b 1024
> >restore
> 
> Now at that point I don't know how to extract specific directories out into
> the file system.
> >restore extract Primary /mnt/
> It asks for the tape drive and seems to do stuff but it hasn't extracted
> into the actual /mnt/ directory.  Is it trying to shift it instead the data
> file?

# restore -i -f mybackup.dmp
>cd /home/bernard
>ls
>add documents-2002
>extract

Use cd/ls to navigate your way around inside the dump, and use
add/delete to choose which files to restore. Finally use extract to
get them out (I suspect into the current directory - it's been a
while since I last used it).

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham dot com dot au>



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