[net.unix-wizards] reading a dump tape with no root directory?

z@rocksvax.UUCP (Jim Ziobro) (01/05/86)

When dumping a damaged filesystem it is possible to create a dump file with
no root directory.  On 4.2BSD at least this is a fatal error when restoring.
Has anyone written some utilities to get files by inodes from a dump file?

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jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) (01/05/86)

In article <1712@rocksvax.UUCP> z@rocksvax.UUCP (Jim Ziobro) writes:
>When dumping a damaged filesystem it is possible to create a dump file with
>no root directory.  On 4.2BSD at least this is a fatal error when restoring.
>Has anyone written some utilities to get files by inodes from a dump file?

If you just want to restore individual files, a 'restore x ...' should
do that.  If you want to restore all files to their proper places ...
I seem to remember someone making scripts to do that, but I'm not sure
whom.
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