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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: reading a dump tape with no root directory?
Message-ID: <171@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Jan-86 13:05:16 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  5 13:05:16 1986
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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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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}