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Old 02-06-2009
Restoring from tape
Hi,

I have a HP SURESTORE 40 tape drive. Several archives are stored on it using DUMP. I have several volumes stored on the tape...

If I issue restore -rf /dev/st0 will it restore just the arhcive that the tape reader is currently on or will it restore all of them?

Thanks,
Last edited by mojoman; 02-06-2009 at 06:01 PM..
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Old 02-09-2009
That command would restore everything on the tape.

You can gain more control by first doing a listing using:

restore -t

then explicity naming the files you want to recover with

restore -x
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Old 02-12-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by quirkasaurus
That command would restore everything on the tape.

You can gain more control by first doing a listing using:

restore -t

then explicity naming the files you want to recover with

restore -x

Well I need to recover everything from the first archive which has the followingl label: /
This is the archive that the tape is currently positioned at. How can I do this task?
I am looking up restore -x as I type but have not figured out a way to do what I want.
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Old 02-12-2009
well, if you have the right tape, here's what you do...

step 1. create new directory for where the tape stuff will go.

step 2. move the current directory out of the way. ( whatever works. )

step 3. restore everything.
step 4. nuke what you don't want.

step 5. copy back files you need from step 2.

shouldn't be too hard that way.
 
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