RESTORE — User Commands

NAME

restore − Restore a file, or set of files from a dump archive.

SYNOPSIS

restore [options] path1 path2 ...

OPTIONS

−f filenameUse filename as the name of the dump archive instead of the default.

−help Print a help message.

−n filenumberIf there are multiple files in the archive, use file number filenumber.

−r Restore using relative pathnames. The leading ’/’ is stripped off.

−t Print the table of contents for the dump archive.

−v Verbose. The name of each file is listed as it is dumped.

DESCRIPTION

The restore command is used to restore a file or set of files from a dump archive. The dump archive is created by the dump command. If a specified path is a single file, then that file is restored. If it is a directory, all files contained in that directory will be recursively restored. If the path is a shell syntax regular expression, then all files in the dump archive matching the expression will be restored.

All the specified paths should be absolute, hard paths. I.e., they should start with the root directory, and should not contain any symbolic links. Be especially careful when restoring something to your home directory because most home directories on Sprite are symbolic links from the /users directory.

KEYWORDS

dump, restore, tape, backup, tar