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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help using pax to restore into current directory? Post 303036452 by c3rb3rus on Wednesday 26th of June 2019 11:51:49 PM
Old 06-27-2019
Help using pax to restore into current directory?
Hello,

I have a tape backup (it was made using dd/tar) and I want to use dd/pax to restore tape to disk, in IBM AIX 7.2.

I can restore from tape using example below without issues.

Code:
#/usr/bin/dd bs=128k if=/dev/rmt0 | /usr/bin/pax -r -v /home/c3rb3rus/utils/*

USTAR format archive
/home/c3rb3rus/utils/file1.txt
/home/c3rb3rus/utils/file1.txt
/home/c3rb3rus/utils/file1.txt

The problem is, I need to restore relative to some (or current) directory, so as long as it is not to original destination to prevent overwriting.

I tried messing with the -s (ReplacementString) parameter but I cannot seem to get it to work.

Anyone able to help me out?
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

dumpelf

DUMPELF(1)						    Documentation for pax-utils 						DUMPELF(1)

NAME

       dumpelf - dump internal ELF structure

SYNOPSIS

       dumpelf [options] ELFs

DESCRIPTION

       dumpelf is a user-space utility to dump all of the internal ELF structures into the equivalent C structures for fun debugging and/or
       reference purposes.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	   Show condensed usage and exit

       -V, --version
	   Print version and exit

       -v, --verbose
	   Be verbose (can be used more than once)

HOMEPAGE

       http://hardened.gentoo.org/pax-utils.xml

REPORTING BUGS

       Please include as much information as possible (using any available debugging options) and send bug reports to the maintainers (see the
       AUTHORS section). Please use the Gentoo bugzilla at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ if possible.

SEE ALSO

       chpax(1), dumpelf(1), paxctl(1), pspax(1), readelf(1), scanelf(1)

AUTHORS

       Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
	   Maintainer

       Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
	   Maintainer

       Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
	   Mach-O Maintainer

NOTES

	1. http://hardened.gentoo.org/pax-utils.xml

	2. http://bugs.gentoo.org/

pax-utils 0.2.3 						    03/03/2011								DUMPELF(1)
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