> Try dropping the leading slash from the filespec: > > tar -xvf /dev/st0 home/mdw<whatever>/<somefile> > > Just watch where you're sitting when you do that. I think if you check the > listing you made with 'tar -tvf', you'll notice the leading slash is not
Ric - good advise. Just remember the difference between relative and absolute path names. Without the leading slash, that's a relative pathnmae -- i.e., relative to where you are now. If you are going to restore home, remember you must be at the top of the tree (cd /) because 'home' (or /home) is a directory off of /, and surely enough, when you restore in /, all the filenames just fall neatly where they're supposed to be. It's probably less error prone to backup /home/username rather than just 'username' -- even if it means one extra directory in the paths of all your files. Not remembering 'where is this data reative to where I am in the filesystem' is easy to do, and oftentimes one ends up with /tmp/usr/bin/something or /home/ed/ed/wheatever if in the wrong place prior to the restore -- hell I've done it enough times :(. It's also why I tell people to 'tvf' before they 'xvf' when using 'tar' :).
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