Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:20:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Masami Kuroda <jkuroda@eecs.berkeley.edu> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/20445: restore(8) -r and -R don't use mktemp(3) Message-ID: <200008081820.LAA60707@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Jon Masami Kuroda <jkuroda@eecs.berkeley.edu>
To: Jon Masami Kuroda <jkuroda@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>,
freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/20445: restore(8) -r and -R don't use mktemp(3)
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 11:15:34 -0700
Someone in the office asked why I didnt just use "restore xf dumpfile"
and it seems the question and answer is relevant enough to put in here
as explanation for others:
from FreeBSD restore(8)
If a backup was made using more than one tape volume, restore will notify
the user when it is time to mount the next volume. If the -x or -i flag
has been specified, restore will also ask which volume the user wishes to
mount. The fastest way to extract a few files is to start with the last
volume, and work towards the first volume.
For the purpose for which I used restore, this is annoying since I dont
really want to have to type "1" or anything interactively to restore
when I have a dozen or more fs's being cloned. Now granted I could use
expect as an interactive wrapper, but I should be able to do this all
with restore on it's own. Or maybe I'm just ultra-lazy.
--Jon
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