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Hello Every one,
I want to back up all passwd files to /xyz/passfiles.cpio

and Then restore them to /abc directory.

Here is what I wrote:

Code:

find / -name passwd | cpio -oc > /tmp/passwd.cpio

and to restore

Code:

cd abc
cpio -ium < /tmp/passwd.cpio

I can not find the files restored to /abc

prpbalby they are restored each one in its directory.

How can I solve this.

Thanks in advance.

There is some variation in the cpio command.
What Operating System and version are you running?
What Shell do you use?

I would strongly advise that when experimenting with powerful commands such as "cpio" you use a test data file not a critical system file such as "passwd".

On a normal system I would only expect one file called "passwd" - "/etc/passwd".

Be careful.

Are you user "root"? Please say no!

Accuracy is everything in computing. Nowhere in your example commands does this directory or filename appear.




Afterthought:
Maybe should be:

Code:

cd /abc

Thanks so much for your replay.

I do just exercise on a virtual machine. May be this process means nothing in reality, I'm just proving the concept.

I'm a root user

actually there are many files named passwd (about 7 ) in different places and i do not care about them now, i just do care about the restore process mechanism. All references I read tells that the restoration process retrieve files to the current directory which doesn't happen with me in this case.

I use Solaris 10 u9 .

Correction:

Code:

I want to back up all files named passwd under root directory to /tmp/passfiles.cpio

and

Code:

 cd /abc

Thanks for the accuracy note. I do appreciate that.