Frecover

[HPP]

Hi,
I backed up /share/stage/ns-home/doc2 using fbackup, the command i used was
#/etc/fbackup -0v -g /tmp/graph -f /data/stage.tar
In the graph file i gave:
i /share/stage/ns-home/doc2

My question is how to extract files from the fbackup to different directory, for example to /share/test/ns-home/doc2. That is i want to extract from backup, all the files from /share/stage/ns-home/doc2 to /share/test/ns-home/doc2.

Thanks in advance

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

See man frecover.

[Thierry Poels_1]

Hi,

one file or directory is easy:
cd /share/test/ns-home/doc2
frecover -xvF -f/dev/rmt/0m -i /share/stage/ns-home/doc2/yourfile
--> -F put files in current directory

a whole subtree is more work:
mkdir /tmp/share
mkdir /tmp/share/stage
mkdir /tmp/share/stage/ns-home
ln -s /share/stage/ns-home/doc2 /tmp/share/stage/ns-home/doc2
cd /tmp
frecover -xvX -f/dev/rmt/0m -i /share/stage/ns-home/doc2
--> -X restore files relative to the current directory; fake the path, and link the bottom directory to your destination

good luck,
(was typed without checking, so be carefull, but the idea should be correct at least)
Thierry.

[Peter Maitland]

"See man frecover"

Vincenzo, That is a pretty stupid answer for someone who is looking for help. If you think the question is silly or if you don't have the time to post a response then don't answer. And while I am at it, do me a favor? Don't answer any of my questions anymore with dead links, I have better things to do than hit dead ends in cyberspace.

Cheers,
Peter

[HPP]

vincenzo,
You dont need to tell me to look into man pages for frecover. I know how to look into man pages and i know what i am doing.

Thanks for your advice.

[Mark Vollmers]

You could use SAM to recover. Go to interative backup and recovery. Click on the device and recover. Ther should be an Additional Parameters area, where you can specify a non-root directory. click on this and enter the directory where you want the files located to. It should put all files in that directory (and put sub-folders in there as well). I think that it will make the directory if it is not created. Sorry I can't be more exact, but I havn't really used the recover portion a whole lot.

Mark