Selective restore of tar backup

[Robin C. Querol]

My backup is:
tar tvf /dev/rmt/0m /ARCH1 /ARCH2 /ARCH3

Now my problem is how to restore a specific directory under /ARCH2. For example /ARCH2/DIR1.

How do I do this? Please help. Thanks.

[Rajeev Shukla]

try
tar xvf /dev/rmt/0m /ARCH1/ARCH2/DIR1

Rajeev

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

# mt -t /dev/rmt/0m rew
# tar xvf /dev/rmt/0m /ARCH2/DIR1
or
# tar xvf /dev/rmt/0m /ARCH2/DIR1/FILE1

Your biggest problem will be that if you want to keep any existing files.

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

# mt -t /dev/rmt/0m rew
# tar xvf /dev/rmt/0m /ARCH2/