From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 19 18:39: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from proxy3.ba.best.com (proxy3.ba.best.com [206.184.139.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCE214BE5 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:39:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from GregoryC@stcinc.com) Received: from stcinc.com (carvalho.vip.best.com [205.149.168.27]) by proxy3.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.out) with ESMTP id SAA16636 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <376C461C.4A4B8C28@stcinc.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:38:36 -0700 From: Gregory Carvalho X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help with tar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG /root, /bin, /sbin and the other root directorys are not restoring when tar -xvz is issued:( Two objectives for the restore: test a disaster recovery scenario, expand partition sizes. First I used dd to overwrite the beginning of the 18GB drive (which had FreeBSD 3.1 Release). I then used the FreeBSD 3.1 Release CDROM to load FreeBSD. I used Novice, and configured very little (partitions and mouse). The following entry in crontab was used to backup on DDS3 DAT for a couple of weeks prior to using dd: 30 2 * * 2-6 root /usr/bin/tar -cvz / The mail generated by the backup appeared good (although I am uncertain whether /root or the others were in the list). I tried to use tar -xvpz from /, but the root dirs did not get restored. tar -tvz displays entries from: /dev, /stand, /etc. It does not show those mentioned above. In addition I installed WordPerfect 8 for Linux, which created a dir named /wpmacros. The directory definetly was listed in the mail results from cron. /wpmacros was not restored nor listed in -tvz. I am soliciting suggestions on how to restore the dirs. If it is not possible with the create command I issued, then please let me know the command. If the command I need to issue is something I have not mentioned here to extract the dirs, please let me know what the command is. TIA, Greg Carvalho GregoryC@stcinc.com Simplified Technology Company http://www.stcinc.com In God I Trust! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message