Restore(1)Restore(1)NAMERestore - restore the specified file or directory from tape
SYNOPSISRestore [ -h hostname ] [ -t tapedevice ] [ directory_name | file_name ]
DESCRIPTION
The Restore command copies the named file or directory from a local or
remote backup tapes to disk. If no file or directory is specified,
Restore copies all the files found on the tape to disk.
Files are restored into the current directory if the backup tape contains
pathnames beginning with ".".
Files on disk are overwritten even if they are more recent than the
respective files on tape.
The options and arguments to Restore are:
-h hostname If a tape drive attached to a remote host is used for
restoring, specify the name of the remote host with the
-h hostname option. For remote restore to successfully
work, you should have a TCP/IP network connection to the
remote host and guest login privileges on that host.
-t tapedevice If the local or remote tape device is pointed to by a
device file other than /dev/tape, the device should be
specified by the -t tapedevice option.
directory_name Restore just the files in the directory directory_name.
This is not the inverse of passing a single directory to
the Backup program. It is intended for restoring only
some directories from a full backup. To restore files
when only a single directory was archived with Backup,
The wild card * must be used, since they are archived
relative to the given directory. When in doubt, use
List_tape to see the archive contents.
file_name Restore just the file file_name.
The Restore command expects the backup tape to be in the special bru(1),
tar(1) (older releases) or cpio(1) (newer releases) format written by
Backup(1) and by the System Manager Backup & Restore tool when doing full
(not partial) backups. This is the same format used for system recovery.
SEE ALSOBackup(1), List_tape(1), bru(1), cpio(1), tar(1).
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