You can limit what gets extracted from the archive by using a filename. For instance, going with your example, to extract only a.txt you could issue
but this would still create a directory "./samba" and put "a.txt there. It would only prevent the other files getting untarred too.
If you do not want this or for some reason cannot mv the files afterwards to different locations you will have to create the tar archive in such a way that allows to extract files to a flat hierarchy. You could pipe a list of filenames to tar like this:
"my.tar" would contain all the *txt files in the current directory and you could extract an arbitrary subset of these with the mechanism sketched above.
Hi,
I'm facing problem of untar'ing the tar contents with absolute pathnames to a different directory.
Please provide me some hint on how to resolve it.
Regards,
Pradeep (1 Reply)
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I am facing the a similar problem which malaymaru has posted earlier raegarding untaring a file in some other specified directory.But the solution by UNIX DAEMON "Perderabo" seems little difficult to understand.(USING #pax -r -s '=^/opt/abc=/tmp=' < tarfile)
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x tivoli.tsm.devices.acsls, 757760 bytes, 1480 media blocks.
tar: 0511-169 A directory checksum error on media; 4011 not equal to 8222.
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Thanks in advance
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
tdbbackup.tdbtools
TDBBACKUP(8) System Administration tools TDBBACKUP(8)NAME
tdbbackup - tool for backing up and for validating the integrity of samba .tdb files
SYNOPSIS
tdbbackup [-s suffix] [-v] [-h]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the samba(1) suite.
tdbbackup is a tool that may be used to backup samba .tdb files. This tool may also be used to verify the integrity of the .tdb files prior
to samba startup or during normal operation. If it finds file damage and it finds a prior backup the backup file will be restored.
OPTIONS -h
Get help information.
-s suffix
The -s option allows the adminisistrator to specify a file backup extension. This way it is possible to keep a history of tdb backup
files by using a new suffix for each backup.
-v
The -v will check the database for damages (currupt data) which if detected causes the backup to be restored.
COMMANDS
GENERAL INFORMATION
The tdbbackup utility can safely be run at any time. It was designed so that it can be used at any time to validate the integrity of tdb
files, even during Samba operation. Typical usage for the command will be:
tdbbackup [-s suffix] *.tdb
Before restarting samba the following command may be run to validate .tdb files:
tdbbackup -v [-s suffix] *.tdb
Samba .tdb files are stored in various locations, be sure to run backup all .tdb file on the system. Important files includes:
o secrets.tdb - usual location is in the /usr/local/samba/private directory, or on some systems in /etc/samba.
o passdb.tdb - usual location is in the /usr/local/samba/private directory, or on some systems in /etc/samba.
o *.tdb located in the /usr/local/samba/var directory or on some systems in the /var/cache or /var/lib/samba directories.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.
AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
The tdbbackup man page was written by John H Terpstra.
Samba 3.6 05/28/2012 TDBBACKUP(8)