Using 'frecover' to restore to different directories.

[BOB BARBA]

I have a tape created some time ago using fbackup. It contains a test environment.
For example:
/test/conc
/test/product

Both the conc and the product directories contain countless subdirectories.

I want to restore the conc and product directoies together with their respective files and sub-directories into a new file system. The new names would be:
/develop/conc
/develop/product.

I have tried moving to the /develop directory and using the -F option in frecover to perform the restore but that seems to remove all leading sub-directories including the ones below /conc and /product (i.e. all files end up in the /develop directory).

Will frecover allow me to perform this type of restore? Any advice would be gratefully received. BobB

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

try the -X option

cd /develop
frecover -r -X ....
mv test/* .
rmdir test

Regards

[Patrick Wallek]

I don't use frecover that much but what if you made a symbolic link so that the directory /test is actually pointing to /develop?

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 5 Jan 5 10:06 test -> develop

That way anything restore to /test will automatically go to /develop.

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

Use SAM Backup and Recovery menu -> Interactive Backup And Recovery" ->Recovery option and choose "Set Addtional Option" Then check "Place Files In Non Root Directory"

You can then specify the directory you want.

[Suhas_2]

Bob,
Pls try the following steps.
1> cd /
2> ln -s /devlop /test
3> mt -t /dev/rmt/ rew
4> /usr/sbin/frecover -xvyoXf /dev/rmt/ -i /test 2>/tmp/trial.log &
(for detailed info abt the argumants given to frecover pls
see the manpage.)

Hope this helps...
Suhas.