john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) (10/03/88)
I have been backing up by SV/AT 2.3 to tape for many months now. I have had no problems restoring the system from scratch. What I needed to do tonight was restore a bunch of files from the cpio backup. I couldnt get it to work. It would go through the whole tape like it never got a match. What I was trying was: strm /dev/mt/rmt0 | cpio -icvmu /usr/acct/john/* What I wanted to do was restore all the files in the directory john. Has anyone had any luck selectively restoring from cpio either tape or floppy ? Any hints are appreciated. Thanks. John -- John Gayman, WA3WBU | UUCP: uunet!wa3wbu!john 1869 Valley Rd. | ARPA: john@wa3wbu.uu.net Marysville, PA 17053 | Packet: WA3WBU @ AK3P
rsj@wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett WA4MEI) (10/03/88)
In article <644@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes: > strm /dev/mt/rmt0 | cpio -icvmu /usr/acct/john/* > > What I wanted to do was restore all the files in the directory john. Try using the following. strm /dev/mt/rmt0 | cpio -icvmu "/usr/acct/john/*" It seems to work for me. -- Randy Jarrett WA4MEI UUCP ...!gatech!wa4mei!rsj | US SNAIL: P.O. Box 941217 PHONE +1 404 493 9017 | Atlanta, GA 30341-0217
jim@hcr.UUCP (Jim Sullivan) (10/05/88)
In article <1484@wa4mei.UUCP> rsj@wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett WA4MEI) writes: >In article <644@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes: >> strm /dev/mt/rmt0 | cpio -icvmu /usr/acct/john/* >> >> What I wanted to do was restore all the files in the directory john. > Try using the following. > strm /dev/mt/rmt0 | cpio -icvmu "/usr/acct/john/*" > of course, you could just escape the asterisk, and enter: strm /dev/mt/rmt0 | cpio -icvmu /usr/acct/john/\* That's all Randy is doing by putting the string in quotes. He's protecting the string from the shell, which is going to try and expand the asterisk.