Thanks to both of you for the replies--it turns out you are both correct. I had to move the tape to the proper block, then extract the file w/o the full path (i.e., since the file was a backup of /var, I had to remove /var from the path in restore.txt).
After that, it turned out the file to be restored was too large to extract to the tmp dir, so I moved the operation to a partition with more room. It is chugging away as I write this now. Thanks for your help! -Mike Hurley -----Original Message----- From: Charlie Brady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:58 PM To: Hurley, Michael Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [flexbackup-help] difficulty restoring single file On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Edwin Huffstutler wrote: > > flexbackup -extract -files restore.txt > > > > where restore.txt is a list of the file I need restored. I ran this as root > > in the /tmp/ directory. It chugged for quite a while, said "the operation > > was successful," but no file anywhere. > > The requested files(s) were not in the archive most likely, or the path was wrong. > > An example of your directory spec and the file list would be good, but check: > 1. What's the root of the backed-up directory? > 2. Make sure the file list in restore.txt is relative to #1 > 3. Check via "flexbackup -list" that the files are in the archive. 4. The tape was not correctly positioned before you ran the command, so that the wrong archive on the tape was searched. -- Charlie ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ flexbackup-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
