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Operating Systems Solaris tar - help needed Post 88233 by frustrated1 on Wednesday 2nd of November 2005 11:22:57 AM
Old 11-02-2005
tar - help needed

I need to retrieve one file from tape which appears to be dumped to using tar.
I have tried the following command - but no luck. Any ideas?
I dont want to to restore the complete backup - just one file.

tar -xf /dev/rmt/0cn /var/opt/tmp/AA/dump/TEST.DUMP_20051003





Backup script looks like the below

# Backup /
echo "" >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
echo "Creating list of excluded files/direcories" >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
mount | grep -v "^/ " | awk '{print "."$1}' > /tmp/rootex$$ 2>&1
(cd /; find ./etc -type D) >> /tmp/rootex$$ 2>&1
echo "Backing up the root (/) file system" >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
(cd /; tar -cEfX $TAPE /tmp/rootex$$ .) >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
rm -f /tmp/rootex$$

# Backup /var/opt/tmp
echo "" >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
echo "Dumping /var/opt/tmp to tape (with tar)" >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
(cd /var/opt/tmp && tar cEf $TAPE .) >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
 

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barrybackup - Barry Project's backup program for the BlackBerry handheld SYNOPSIS
barrybackup [-?][-d] DESCRIPTION
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