 | | | recovering a single directory from a tar archive | recovering a single directory from a tar archive 2004-02-19 - By Marvin Blackburn
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Thanks, that was a big help.
I had read in Unix Power Tools that you had to specify a file. If you
specified a directory nothing would be extracted.
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Marvin Blackburn
Systems Administrator
Glen Raven
"He 's no failure. He 's not dead yet " --William Lloyd George
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> From: redhat-list-admin@(protected)
> [mailto:redhat-list-admin@(protected)]On Behalf Of Will Mc Donald
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:44 AM
> To: redhat-list@(protected)
> Subject: Re: recovering a single directory from a tar archive
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> From: "Marvin Blackburn " <mblackburn@(protected) >
> > I have a single rhel 2.1 es systems that has an attached tape drive.
> > I need a good way to back it up, and I was thinking tar would work.
> > However, I often have to recover directories and there are
> too many files to
> > list individually.
> > Is there an easy way to get a particular directory.
> >
> > Or is there another mechanism for backing up that would
> alleviate this
> > problem. I have considered amanda; however it seems to be
> a bit of overkill
> > just for one system.
>
>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200101/ms
g04040.html
Assuming $archive is your tarfile or tape device and $filename is the file
you want you can just do...
$ tar tvf $archive
... for a file listing. Then to extract one file just do...
$ tar xvf $archive $filename
Add the 'z ' option as required if your archive 's compressed. Your other
alternative would be to use dump/restore. Then do a...
$ restore -ivf
And you could 'cd ' down into the appropriate place, 'add ' the required files
the 'extract '.
Will.
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