TAR headache

[fraze]

We're moving Oracle from one AIX machine to another but the directory structures are slightly different and I'm having problems untar'ing to the new structure.
I took an archive by running tar cvfp - /ORA/app/oracle/oraInventory but want to restore them to /app/oracle not /ORA/app/oracle - how can I do this?

Thanks in advance,

Fraze

 

[KenCunningham]

You could try using pax. See Thread52-561583 for a discussion. Cheers.

 

[Boria]

Hi Fraze,
you can use pax command instead tar to do what you want.
pax -r -v -s */ORA/app/oracle*/app/oracle* -f <your_archive>
Best regards Boris

 

[BFOJ]

It's an extra step, but you could just rename the path using the &quot;mv&quot; command after restoring the tar.

 

[gregoryhenry]

What you want to do is to tar the files in the sub-directory

So cd to the directory:

cd /ORA/app/oracle/oraInventory

tar -cvf foo.tar ./*

Then cd to the directory where you want to untar

cd /app/oracle

tar -xvf foo.tar


Greg

 

[fraze]

Thanks for the help - got it sorted now

 

[mrn]

Just as a side note, I did this a short while back and used vgsave vgbackup & mksysb

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