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Operating Systems AIX Restore from savevg Post 302905125 by ElizabethPJ on Monday 9th of June 2014 09:43:03 PM
Old 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(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
Copyright (c) 2002-2009,2012 by Heinz-Josef Claes (see README). Published under the GNU General Public License v3 or any later version perl v5.14.2 2012-03-03 STOREBACKUPRECOVER(1)
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