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[harpal]

can some tell if this is the command to restore a whole directory using tar i would like to restore the following

tar -xvf /dev/rmt1 ./r1/oracle/oradata/live/nsb/mercatus under mercatus there are 30 .dbf files which need restoring will the above command restore all 30 files I have already done a tar -tvf and the files exisit on the tape

thanks in advance

Harpal

 

[mkharris]

Looks fine, but take care with your absolute and relative path names. The tar restore shown, will create the directory relative to your pwd, so if you are in /home/fred, the restore will end up in /home/fred/r1/oracle/oradata/live/nsb/mercatus.

You might also want to consider using the -p flag if you want to ensure all the file attributes are restored along with the files.

Mark