06-09-2014
Restore from savevg
I am trying to restore files from savevg.
I used to smit restore and gave the file location.
Savevg is taken to a mount point from San storage and not tape back up.
Can I restore just a directory from savevg?
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After I tried restoring file the op shows no files restored
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storebackuprecover
STOREBACKUPRECOVER(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation STOREBACKUPRECOVER(1)
NAME
storeBackupRecover.pl - recovers files saved with storeBackup.pl.
SYNOPSIS
storeBackupRecover.pl -r restore [-b root] -t targetDir [--flat]
[-o] [--tmpdir] [--noHardLinks] [-p number] [-v] [-n]
[--cpIsGnu] [--noGnuCp]
OPTIONS
--restoreTree, -r
file or (part of) the tree to restore
when restoring a file, the file name in the backup has
to be used (eg. with compression suffix)
--backupRoot, -b
root of storeBackup tree, normally not needed
--targetDir, -t
directory for unpacking
--flat
do not create subdirectories
--overwrite, -o
overwrite existing files
--tmpdir, -T
directory for temporary file, default is <$tmpdir>
--noHardLinks
do not reconstruct hard links in restore tree
--noRestoreParallel, -p
max no of paralell programs to unpack, default is 12
reduce this number if you are restoring blocked files
and the system has insufficient RAM
--verbose, -v
print verbose messages
--noRestored, -n
print number of restored dirs, hardlinks, symlinks, files, ...
--noGnuCp
overwrite information in backup: you do not have gnucp
installed
(only relevant for sockets, block and character devices)
COPYRIGHT
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perl v5.14.2 2012-03-03 STOREBACKUPRECOVER(1)