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TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

 
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DK Raviraja
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TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

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 ?
Mera Bharath Mahan
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Andreas Voss
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Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

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

Ken Scharpell
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Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path


or download and install gnu tar, by default it restores to the current directory (for absolute paths you need an option).
The whole world is a simple perl script
DK Raviraja
Occasional Advisor

Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

Hello

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

Thanks & Regds
DKR Bhat
Mera Bharath Mahan
Andreas Voss
Honored Contributor

Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

Hi,

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

Regards
Andreas Voss
Honored Contributor

Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

Hi,

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

Regards
Santosh Nair_1
Honored Contributor

Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

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.

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DK Raviraja
Occasional Advisor

Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

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 !!
Mera Bharath Mahan
Santosh Nair_1
Honored Contributor

Re: TAR - Backup with Absolute Path

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
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