Re: How to recover a file from a backup...
Good advice. When you can't find a file on a tape, try _listing_
the files on the tape and then list the path exactly as it
reported it. Omitting the leading slash is the right thing to
try.
Shao Zhang wrote:
> 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:
>
> > 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
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