Re: How to recover a file from a backup...

[Shao Zhang <shao@cia.com.au>]

Hi,
	Just a quick guess, have you tried this:

	tar xvf /dev/st0 var/spool/mail/xxx

	i.e. withour the leading slash '/'

Shao.

Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe [mjnf@neptuno.uevora.pt] wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Last week i made a backup of our mail server using tar. I used the
> following command:
> 
> 	tar cvMf /dev/st0 -g /tmp/backuped /var/spool/mail
> 
> The whole thing went into 3 tapes.
> 
> One of our users destroyed (a.k.a. deleted) all of his messages and now
> he want's them back. I know that his mailbox lives on the second tape so
> i tried to insert the second tape and issue the following command:
> 
> 	tar xvf /dev/st0 /var/spool/mail/xxx
> 
> It told me it couldn't find the file (but with tvf it finds it). So I
> tried to insert the first tape and then issue the following command:
> 
> 	tar xvf /dev/st0 -g /tmp/backuped /var/spool/mail/xxx
> 
> and it still tell's me that it can't find the file...
> 
> Can anyone give me a hint on how to recover the damn file.
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
>         Mario Filipe 
>         mjnf@uevora.pt
>         http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf
> 
> 
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