restore one file from make tape recovery

[Fauziah Mahdan]

Hi all I have problem login to my system whereby my /etc/pam.conf corrupted.
The only is to restore via make tape recovery.
If I want to remain the rest file there and only want to restore specific file from make tape recovery backup can it be done?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Yes, this is a FAQ, or Frequently Asked Question in ITRC:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1137154

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=942589

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=749664

SEP

[Ganesan R]

Hi,

If you need just overright the existing file,

#mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn rew
#mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn fsf 1
#tar xvf /dev/rmt/0mn /etc/pam.conf

If you want to restore to some alternate location run the below commands

#cd /tmp
#mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn rew
#mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn fsf 1
#tar xvf /dev/rmt/0mn etc/pam.conf

This will restore the file in /tmp

[Fauziah Mahdan]

The problem is I can't login to the system at all. If i restore and boot from this tape at which stage I should interrupt to only restore for 1 file?