I'm trying to restore a directory on one of our servers. First, I want the directory to reside in a temporary location before I move it to its original location. I ran the following command in the temp location:
amrestore /dev/nst0 <hostname> /.1/shares
Now I have a file in my temp directory named <hostname>._.1_shares.20030206.0. I've tried to tar it to expand the contents but the server just sits there, even when running tar overnight. I used:
tar xvpS <hostname>._.1_shares.20030206.0
What am I doing wrong? I need to be able to pull a certain directory out and trash the rest. Any help will be appreciated.
Hi
well I tend to use amrecover myself....
amrecover [ [ -C ] config ] [ -s index-server ] [ -t tape-server ] [ -d tape-device ]
(index and tape server tend to be same)
then inside amrecover you can set the dir/filesystem you want to recover, where you want it to go and from what date.
anyway back to your tar problem. you haven't used the 'f' option to tell tar to use a non default file ie..
tar xvpfS <hostname>._.1_shares.20030206.0
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