How to recover a particular file to a temp location from the tape

[BalaRV]

Hi,
I want to recover a particular file from the backup tape to a temparory location. Can anyone help me in this.

[Luk Vandenbussche]

What command did you use to take the backup?

[melvyn burnard]

That is like saying you want a piece of cable, without saying how long or what type.

What command/utility was used to create the tape archive?
Is it written in relative or absoulte paths if using something like tar?

[BalaRV]

fbackup is the command used to take backup.

[melvyn burnard]

use frecover to recover your file, removing the leading diorectories an dallowing you to put it in the current working dircetory.
man frecover

[Luk Vandenbussche]

The most easy way it to recover the files with sam, here you have a nice user interface.

[BalaRV]

i need to restore a perticular file to temporary location using frecover command

[melvyn burnard]

so as already stated, use either SAM to select the file and the location to put it, or use the command line, first reading the man page for frecover

[Fabio Ettore]

Hi,

AFAIK it's not possible to recover single file to a temporary directory by frecover but only on the same path:

frecover -xXvf /dev/rmt/0m -i /

The file will be restored into the same path (overwritten).

A workaround is to recover all tape contents to a temporary directory:

mkdir /tmp/fbk
cd /tmp/fbk
frecover -xXvf /dev/rmt/0m

You will see the tree of all tape contents starting from /tmp/fbk and so you can recover single files from there.

HTH.

Best regards,
Fabio

[melvyn burnard]

>fabio

You can in fact recover without the leading directories in frecover, see the man page for the -F option

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
you should be able to recover a file from your backup and rename/copy the file to a different location with pax.
See:
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60127/pax.1.html

[melvyn burnard]

pax reads cpio and tar archives, not fbackup archives

[Albert_31]

Hello Bala,

Check these options of frecover, I think these are teh ones you are looking for..

frecover
-x
-N (for checking)
-X
-i
-F

regards

Albert

[Bill Hassell]

frecover is the command to use. I will assume that your tape device is /dev/rmt/0m so to see the header (date/time of backup, etc):

frecover -V - -f /dev/rmt/0m

To see all the files on the tape:

frecover -I - -f /dev/rmt/0m

Note that the -I - can also be sent to a file as in:

frecover -I /var/tmp/my_index -f /dev/rmt/0m

To recover a single file to different location:

cd /var/tmp
frecover -xvF -f /dev/rmt/0m -i /etc/fstab

This assumes that you want to extract the file /etc/fstab from the tape and store it in /var/tmp/fstab. If you want to create the same directory structure but start in a different directory:

cd /var/tmp
frecover -xvX -f /dev/rmt/0m -i /etc/fstab

This recovers fstab to the directory /var/tmp/etc/fstab

The man page helps a lot in these cases.