topic Re: restoring a specfic directory using tar in Operating System - HP-UX

restoring a specfic directory using tar

srinivasa rao vaddadi — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:56:34 GMT

how can i restore a specified directory from tape using " tar " ?

ex : a directory (/data1) is there in an 80GB tape.

Bharat Katkar — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:00:53 GMT

Hi,

To restore using tar:

# tar xvf .

This will restore the directory in current location.

Regards,

Devender Khatana — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:39:48 GMT

Hi,

If the backup was taken will absolute path then will be restored on the same path and could overwrite contents without prompting.

HTH,
Devender

srinivasa rao vaddadi — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 14:02:34 GMT

thanqu all for replying me

specially for Bharat to giving an on dot answer to my query.

srinivasa rao vaddadi — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 14:07:32 GMT

thnqu all.