The item at the end says what to back up. The dot refers to the current directory. It could be a full path so somewhere if that suits better, however that will mean that the files can only be restored to the named location. Using a relative path name to where you are (or just a dot) means that you can restore files to the same place relative to where you are when you do the restore.
As an alternate to copying, you could do something like this:-
if you just did this:-
.... then a restore would always write to /home/RBATTE1 which may be undesirable.
It's a bit of a crude description, but I hope you get the idea.
Robin
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Hi all,
I would like to append list of files to already taken tar backup
file. can anybody help?
last month backup :
cd /accounts/11
tar -cvf monthback.tar *
Now I want to add /accounts/12 to monthback.tar
is it possible?
Krishna (1 Reply)
Hi all & anyone.
I'm trying to selectively backup up some old Apache log files before they are removed from the system (Slackware box).
Have created a file listing of what I want backed up ...Below is a portion of the file ./selectedbkup... (2 Replies)
Im trying to use tar to backup the os directories. I have a file called bdirs which contains a list of the directories that im trying to backup:
/bin
/dev
/devices
/etc
/export
/home
/kernel
/lib
/local
/mnt
/opt
/platform
/proc
/sbin
start
/usr
/var
/vol (3 Replies)
Every day we back up all files on our system that are older than 7 days, so effectively we do a day's worth at a time.
The way we do this is to issue a find command using mtime +7 - we then loop round and for each result we issue a MV to move the file to a newly created directory. We then TAR the... (20 Replies)
I am trying to do a full system backup using tar. It then after maybe 12 or so hours comes up with tar: write error: unexpected EOF. I have thoroughly cleaned the drive and tried to use a different drive but it still gives me this error. Can someone help. I am on solaris 8. (1 Reply)
I have a Linux email server, I want to backup all /home /var... by tar command and copy to my PC for backup everyweek. The Linux serve rhave ftp function.
Is there any program to help backup my file? any url welcome
many thank. (8 Replies)
Hi all,
i need to backup files on network from RHEL 4 machine
tape drive is installed on solaris 10 machine and want ot use this
using
# tar cv /myfiles |ssh -l myuser myhost 'buffer -o /dev/rmt/0 "
to backup these file but getting getting error " sh buffer not found '
even "buffer-1.19-1"... (2 Replies)
Hi friends,
I am planning to backup my Solaris Servers to SAN storage using tar.
Also palnning to automate the job using Crontab.
Can anyone advise how to make the date change automatically everyday for backup.
Pls correct me if I am wrong. Thanks (7 Replies)
I am backing up some data to an NTFS formatted backup drive. I have to preserve the Unix permissions of the data being backed up and therfore use backup into a tar file.
I would like to backup the differnential data in the tar file similiar to how Rsync works so as to save on backup time as it... (1 Reply)
hello i want to backup my debian running nas (only the debian part)
i wanna do this over ssh
is this possible and how to do this
thx
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the thing is i f this is possible i wanne have te back up of... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
bup-restore
bup-restore(1) General Commands Manual bup-restore(1)NAME
bup-restore - extract files from a backup set
SYNOPSIS
bup restore [--outdir=outdir] [-v] [-q]
DESCRIPTION
bup restore extracts files from a backup set (created with bup-save(1)) to the local filesystem.
The specified paths are of the form /branch/revision/path/to/file. The components of the path are as follows:
branch the name of the backup set to restore from; this corresponds to the --name (-n) option to bup save.
revision
the revision of the backup set to restore. The revision latest is always the most recent backup on the given branch. You can dis-
cover other revisions using bup ls /branch.
/path/to/file
the original absolute filesystem path to the file you want to restore. For example, /etc/passwd.
Note: if the /path/to/file is a directory, bup restore will restore that directory as well as recursively restoring all its contents.
If /path/to/file is a directory ending in a slash (ie. /path/to/dir/), bup restore will restore the children of that directory directly to
the current directory (or the --outdir). If the directory does not end in a slash, the children will be restored to a subdirectory of the
current directory. See the EXAMPLES section to see how this works.
OPTIONS -C, --outdir=outdir
create and change to directory outdir before extracting the files.
-v, --verbose
increase log output. Given once, prints every directory as it is restored; given twice, prints every file and directory.
-q, --quiet
don't show the progress meter. Normally, is stderr is a tty, a progress display is printed that shows the total number of files
restored.
EXAMPLE
Create a simple test backup set:
$ bup index -u /etc
$ bup save -n mybackup /etc/passwd /etc/profile
Restore just one file:
$ bup restore /mybackup/latest/etc/passwd
Restoring: 1, done.
$ ls -l passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 apenwarr apenwarr 1478 2010-09-08 03:06 passwd
Restore the whole directory (no trailing slash):
$ bup restore -C test1 /mybackup/latest/etc
Restoring: 3, done.
$ find test1
test1
test1/etc
test1/etc/passwd
test1/etc/profile
Restore the whole directory (trailing slash):
$ bup restore -C test2 /mybackup/latest/etc/
Restoring: 2, done.
$ find test2
test2
test2/passwd
test2/profile
SEE ALSO bup-save(1), bup-ftp(1), bup-fuse(1), bup-web(1)BUP
Part of the bup(1) suite.
AUTHORS
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>.
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