Restore files from vdump

[jeffunix]

Hi guys,

I was able to put my tar file on the tape. I wana know how can i access this file? Like restore foo.gz to /home/foo ?

Thanks.

jeff

[Rob Leadbeater · Accepted solution]

Hi Jeff,

The opposite of vdump is vrestore.

Run it in interactive mode with "vrestore -i" you can then do "ls" to see the contents of the tape. Add files to restore with add, so "add foo.gz" then "restore"

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Rob

[jeffunix]

Hi,

Thanks a lot, just reading the same thing. Like if i want to execute it without using the interactive, is it like this ?

#vrestore -x -D /home/foo foo.gz

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi,

Yes that looks about right, assuming the vdump was done in /home

Cheers,
Rob

[jeffunix]

Hi Rob,

Like if i have filename jeff.gz on my tape and i want to get this file and put it maybe on /tmp. How will i do this ?


just a little bit more
tnx a lot.

jeff

[Rob Leadbeater]

Probably something like:

# vrestore -x -D /tmp jeff.gz

Cheers,

Rob