Thanks, that was a big help. I had read in Unix Power Tools that you had to specify a file. If you specified a directory nothing would be extracted. ------------------ Marvin Blackburn Systems Administrator Glen Raven "He's no failure. He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Will Mc Donald > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:44 AM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: recovering a single directory from a tar archive > > > 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/ms g04040.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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
