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Old 11-05-2008
How to restore a dump file on the disk

Hi all,

i am a real dummy to unix and in need of help.My platform is Sun solaris(5.9)

I have a dump file, an oracle cold backup taken with ufsdump command. This dump file resides on the disk, not the tape.
I want to extract this dump file to a directory. But i cant, i read about ufsrestore command and i think it can only restore from the tape?
What can i do to extract this dump file? thanks in advance.
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Old 11-05-2008
From the man pages:
Code:
   f dump_file    Use dump_file instead of /dev/rmt/0  as  the
                     file  to  restore  from. Typically dump_file
                     specifies  a  tape  or  diskette  drive.  If
                     dump_file  is  specified  as `-', ufsrestore
                     reads from the standard input.  This  allows
                     ufsdump(1M)  and  ufsrestore to be used in a
                     pipeline to copy a file system:

                     example# ufsdump 0f - /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7 \
                      | (cd /home;ufsrestore xf -)

Its all there...
 
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