heather@ucla-cs.ARPA (Heather Klapman) (04/07/86)
I am looking for a less awkward way to restore our backup tapes than we currently use. Currently, we use the Berkeley dump and restor facilities. Briefly, restoring from a dump entails either doing a full restore, or using a command called dumpdir which yields a listing of all files in the dump and enables a partial restore of named files. If this option is chosen, the files are restored given the name of their original inode number and then must be moved (by hand or via a shell script) to their actual filenames. I have written a utility that issues a dumpdir, greps for a pattern and then does a restor of all files matching that pattern, creating any directory hierarchy needed, which avoids the problem of moving files named by their inode number to a hierarchical structure later. This utility is only slightly less awkward than restoring manually and is still time consuming to use (its good point is that it does let one restore a hierarchy without doing a full restore). We have rejected the idea of doing our backups using tar because it is much more time consuming. We have not investigated cpio, although my impression is that it is similar to tar. We are running a kernel that claims to be compatible with both Berkeley and System V software. We'd appreciate any solutions or suggestions you may have. Thanks! Heather Klapman Programmer Program in Computing-UCLA