Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wa3wbu!john
From: john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: selective cpio restore
Message-ID: <644@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 88 23:10:39 GMT
Organization: WA3WBU, Marysville,PA
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     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


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