Thanks all of you who replyed. I got it working. It now restores the files.
One more problem. After it restores the files it appears to continue
searching through the tape. It will say:
[root@primary /]# tar -xvf /dev/nst0 backup/04_01_98
Date: Tue Apr 7 03:00:11 MDT 1998 *** Volume: localh
Ok, why did redhat write a script to backup your files to tape, but
did not write a script to restore them???
Just curious! [grin] I am having a hard time restoring a particular file
from my tape.
I used: tar -xvf /dev/nst0 dir/filename
but it doesn't seem to work!
Thanks for you time!
Troy
I was looking at the rhbackup script I just installed on my RedHat 4.2
server
This looks great, but I noticed that the script does NOT include the -z
option for tar which will compress the archive.
Question: Is there any reason why I shouldn't add the z option onto the tar
command i
Thank you everyone that responded to my plea for help! [grin]
I install the rhbackup source rpm from the 5.0 release and it worked
wonderfully!
But now I have an additional question:
The rhbackup appears to only backup your data to the scsi tape how do you
restore? I take it one must
I am stuck running redhat 4.2 until Pick Software will get their database
ported to the new redhat 4.0. Currently it doesnt seem to run correctly.
I am interested in the rhbackup under redhat 5.0
Has anyone tried install the script under redhat 4.2? If so, with what
results. Could
