frecover from commandline

[Nellian Solaiappan]

Hi All
I want to recover /etc/passwd file from my full backup tape on to a different path (for ex. /home/admin/passwd).

Would this do the trick for me?

# cd /home/admin

#frecover -f /dev/rmt/0m -x -i /etc/passwd -F

I will appreciate any help

Regards
Nell

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Yes, that is correct. The "-F" is the most important argument to prevent the overwrite of the "real" /etc/passwd file. You might want to include "-v" for verbose and to gain some "safe" experience use the -N argument that will print the output message but not do any real extraction.

Above all. when doing anything to the passwd file, make a copy, and be logged in as root in at least two sessions so that you can get yourself out of trouble almost as fast as you got yourself in trouble.

[Con O'Kelly]

Hi Nell

I've used the "-X" (capital X) option to restore files /directories to a different location as follows:

# cd /home/admin
# frecover -x -X -v -f /dev/rmt/0m -i /etc/passwd

Cheers
Con

[Nellian Solaiappan]

Thanks guys for your suggestions!