topic Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path in Operating System - HP-UX

TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

DK Raviraja — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:37:25 GMT

We got a MEDIA with files backed up using ABsolute Path. How to restore the files to our own directory.

If I give tar -xvf it replaces existing files. How to avoid this ?. Is there any switch so that the files can restored in any other location ?

Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

Andreas Voss — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:41:34 GMT

Hi,

you can use pax:

change to directory where you want to restore:
cd
Then do:
pax -rv -s'/^\///'
This will restore the archive into the current directory.

Regards

Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

Ken Scharpell — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:03:34 GMT

or download and install gnu tar, by default it restores to the current directory (for absolute paths you need an option).

Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

DK Raviraja — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:13:39 GMT

Hello

What is this GNu tar. Can you please give me site address.

Thanks & Regds
DKR Bhat

Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

Andreas Voss — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:18:45 GMT

Hi,

here the URL for gnuTar:
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnome/guiTAR-0.1.4/

Regards

Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

Andreas Voss — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:21:27 GMT

Hi,

sorry that was the wrong link.
Here the correct link:
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.13.16/

Regards

Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

Santosh Nair_1 — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:11:37 GMT

Hi,

You could also try the '-C ' (thats a capital C) option to HP's tar which is supposed to chdir to before it starts extracting from the archive. Hope this help.

Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

DK Raviraja — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:26:19 GMT

Dear Nair,

My default dir is /home/dkrbhat
My TAR File name is dkr.TAR
Created a dir test

tar -xvf dkr.TAR -C test does not restore files

Can you give me a example.

Of course I completed the job using PAX command !!

Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

Santosh Nair_1 — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:53:10 GMT

My apologizes. Stupid of me to post without testing it out first. In any case, the -C option only works for creating the archive, i.e. you can specify multipile -C and it will add the file to the archive with a relative path to . But apparently this doesn't work when extracting from the archive (a fact NOT mentioned in the man page). Again apologies.

-Santosh