Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2019 20:29:56 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Non-interactive multivolume restore Message-ID: <CANCZdfr732j5q_O4ZxwJwY-FF5M4U5REGDoX-Xjr_6iN-zPE5w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5fc87495-8fdc-c1f3-0b95-8609347794f0@m5p.com> References: <5fc87495-8fdc-c1f3-0b95-8609347794f0@m5p.com>
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On Sun, Feb 3, 2019, 8:23 PM George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com wrote: > Historically, the restore program assumed that the volumes of a > multivolume dump were on separate physical reels of tape, and that a > human would have to load each tape to complete the restore. But now > I have multivolume dumps that are simply separate online files from > which I would like to restore without having to type each name in > one at a time. However, you can give only one -f option on the > command line, and additional file names are assumed to specify the > files you want to restore, as opposed to additional dump volumes. > > I thought perhaps 'cat dumpvols... | restore -x -f -', but that > gets confused at the beginning of the second volume. > > What's the right way to do this? > Multiple -f args? Maybe a printf format to clue restore into how to construct the names? Maybe also some pipe command with a similar % specification to allow restore from compressed files.. Warner >
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