From: "Marvin Blackburn" <mblackburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > I have a single rhel 2.1 es systems that has an attached tape drive. > I need a good way to back it up, and I was thinking tar would work. > However, I often have to recover directories and there are too many files to > list individually. > Is there an easy way to get a particular directory. > > Or is there another mechanism for backing up that would alleviate this > problem. I have considered amanda; however it seems to be a bit of overkill > just for one system. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200101/msg04040.html Assuming $archive is your tarfile or tape device and $filename is the file you want you can just do... $ tar tvf $archive ... for a file listing. Then to extract one file just do... $ tar xvf $archive $filename Add the 'z' option as required if your archive's compressed. Your other alternative would be to use dump/restore. Then do a... $ restore -ivf And you could 'cd' down into the appropriate place, 'add' the required files the 'extract'. Will. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
