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To: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu>
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Subject: Re: How to restore from a tape using tar?
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Just my .02 worth.
I would think that dump would be a far better option for doing the backup
as well as the restore. Using 'restore' you can place things in a differnt
location just by being in a different location when you issue the restore
-i command.
Do something like this.
dump -0auf /dev/st0 /
then to restore it change to what ever location you want and do something
like this.
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind  <if non rewinding device>
restore -i /dev/st0 

Works great.

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I here by change the name
of RedHat to RedSplat.

Keith W.
At the helm <for better or worse>
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote:

> I have a computer running FreeBSD 3.4 with a scsi hard drive, cd and tape 
> drive.  I recently attempted to run a backup of the system with the command:
> 
> tar -cvf  /dev/st0   /
> 
> which should've backed up the entire system.  I was able to run:
> 
> tar  -tf  /dev/st0  >  /FullBackupTOC.txt
> 
> and successfully created a table of contents for the tape.
> 
> I now want to test whether I can properly restore files from this tape but 
> I want to restore them to a different location than they were (so that I 
> don't accidentally erase anything).  I'm not sure what the syntax for tar 
> would be to accomplish this.
> 
> Any suggestions/ideas?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Oscar
> 
> 
> 
> "Don't believe the hype"
> 
> 
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