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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:52:40PM -0500, Jaime wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Wojciech Puchar
> <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> > dump is perfect. period.
> 
> Is it possible to pull out individual files?  A fellow sysadmin asked
> me that years ago and I didn't have an answer for him.


Very easily.    Just use restore -i

Usually when I do that, I make a special direcory to receive things.
(I usually call it  'unroll')  That way I can put what I want there
and then move it to where I want to, even if it is different from
where it originally was.    

////jerry


> 
> Thanks,
> Jaime
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