How to recover a particular file to a temp location from the tape

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
you should be able to recover a file from your backup and rename/copy the file to a different location with pax.
See:
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60127/pax.1.html

[melvyn burnard]

pax reads cpio and tar archives, not fbackup archives

[Albert_31]

Hello Bala,

Check these options of frecover, I think these are teh ones you are looking for..

frecover
-x
-N (for checking)
-X
-i
-F

regards

Albert

[Bill Hassell]

frecover is the command to use. I will assume that your tape device is /dev/rmt/0m so to see the header (date/time of backup, etc):

frecover -V - -f /dev/rmt/0m

To see all the files on the tape:

frecover -I - -f /dev/rmt/0m

Note that the -I - can also be sent to a file as in:

frecover -I /var/tmp/my_index -f /dev/rmt/0m

To recover a single file to different location:

cd /var/tmp
frecover -xvF -f /dev/rmt/0m -i /etc/fstab

This assumes that you want to extract the file /etc/fstab from the tape and store it in /var/tmp/fstab. If you want to create the same directory structure but start in a different directory:

cd /var/tmp
frecover -xvX -f /dev/rmt/0m -i /etc/fstab

This recovers fstab to the directory /var/tmp/etc/fstab

The man page helps a lot in these cases.