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Ignite Question on excluding the files during the restore

Mike_305 — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 07:25:31 GMT

Hello,

Does anyone knows how to exclude files during the restore of the ignite. We have some files that were backed up when we cut the image and now during the ignite restore process we are trying to exclude those.

Any idea on how I can do that. Appreciate your help and thanks in advance.

Regards,

MJ

Re: Ignite Question on excluding the files during the restore

Manix — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 08:05:38 GMT

which kind of image you have ,Golden image ,or
tape /bet recovery.

Thanks
Manix

Re: Ignite Question on excluding the files during the restore

Mike_305 — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 09:06:20 GMT

Hello,

thanks for the reply. It's a make_net_recovery file. Not a tape.

Thanks

Re: Ignite Question on excluding the files during the restore

Manix — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 09:47:18 GMT

AFAIK this doesn`t looks feasible neither i can find any such method in admin guide,

http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01942571/c01942571.pdf

Yes restoring selective files rather then excluding from the archive is possible.

#gunzip -c 2008-01-17,13:53|tar -xvf - opt/ssh/etc
This will restore the opt/ssh/etc dir relative to the current path, which can be copied to the actual destination.
There are ways to do the same with "pax' as
well.

Yes while taking the backups there are the options to exclude the files.

Let`s see if some one else know more on this.

Thanks
Manix

Re: Ignite Question on excluding the files during the restore

Mike_305 — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:44:47 GMT

Hello,

Giving you 10 points just for replying at late night, appreciate your help very much.

Thanks... No luck with issue. I will be curious if anyone out in HP-UX community has done this. It will be good to know.

Re: Ignite Question on excluding the files during the restore

Dennis Handly — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 04:01:41 GMT

>Does anyone knows how to exclude files during the restore of the ignite.

As Manix mentioned, use pax's -c option.

Re: Ignite Question on excluding the files during the restore

Manix — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 06:15:53 GMT

We may help you with "pax" to restore certain files and directories structures ,if you need that.But it wont re image the OS.

Do let us know.

Thanks
Manix