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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications cpio question Post 302158264 by Perderabo on Monday 14th of January 2008 10:19:08 PM
Old 01-14-2008
I going to need to guess here because most cpio version do not have that A option. Good thing you have it though... it gives you a good shot at this. I look up that A on the SCO web site. It turns absolute paths into relative paths by removing the leading slash. If I read this right, you will wind up with /u/tape/u/prd and so on. Make sure you cd into /u/tape. Then you run your cpio command with patterns to match the directories you want to restore. The problem is that I don't know what you want to exclude. Is there a /u/prd9 and /u/prd10, etc? So to keep it simple just try this...

cpio -AvicdumkB -I/dev/rct0 u/prd u/prd2 u/prd3 u/prd4 u/prd5 u/prd6 u/prd7 u/prd8

I think this will work, but I have no way to test it. Let us know if it works ok.
 

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cpio.h

cpio.h(3HEAD)                                                         Headers                                                        cpio.h(3HEAD)

NAME

       cpio.h, cpio - cpio archive values

SYNOPSIS

       #include <cpio.h>

DESCRIPTION

       Values needed by the c_mode field of the cpio archive format are described as follows:

       Name              Description
       C_IRUSR           Read by owner
       C_IWUSR           Write by owner
       C_IXUSR           Execute by owner
       C_IRGRP           Read by group
       C_IWGRP           Write by group
       C_IXGRP           Execute by group
       C_IROTH           Read by others
       C_IWOTH           Write by others
       C_IXOTH           Execute by others
       C_ISUID           Set user ID
       C_ISGID           Set group ID
       C_ISVTX           On directories, restricted deletion flag
       C_ISDIR           Directory
       C_ISFIFO          FIFO
       C_ISREG           Regular file
       C_ISBLK           Block special
       C_ISCHR           Character special
       C_ISCTG           Reserved
       C_ISLNK           Symbolic link
       C_ISSOCK          Socket

       The header defines the symbolic constant:

       MAGIC         "070707"

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability          |Standard                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       pax(1), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          10 Sep 2004                                                      cpio.h(3HEAD)
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