flexbackup-help

[flexbackup-help] Restoring files with flist text file.

[Jeff B. <je...@je...>]

I'm been unsuccessful trying to restore just the files I need.  I run
flexbackup like this:

flexbackup -extract -flist /path/flist

flist text file, called "flist":

"/home/jb/.jpilot/DatebookDB.pc3"
"/home/jb/.jpilot/DateboodDB.pdb"

I've also tried the command line like this:

flexbackup -extract -flist DatebookDB.*

No luck.  There's got to be an easier way than restoring the whole
archive.  

Jeff Borders

Re: [flexbackup-help] Restoring files with flist text file.

[Scott C. <sc...@bn...>]

On Saturday 18 September 2004 23:30, Jeff Borders wrote:
> I'm been unsuccessful trying to restore just the files I need.

Jeff,

I have a small readme file I keep to remind myself how to restore files.
Here it is:

zimtok5.scott> more readme
To extract a file from an image:

(for example)

root> cd /backups/x22c/images
root> flexbackup -c ../flexbackups.conf -list home.2.2021126.afio-gz | /backups/restore/list-dir.pl valery > fred
root> vi fred
        (edit list of files, leaving only the desired file names.)
root> flexbackup -c ../flexbackup.conf -extract home.2.20021126.afio-gz -flist fred
root> rm fred *.log

zimtok5.scott>

Note that if your flexbackup.conf is not the default one in /etc then you need
to specify it on the command line.  The restored files will appear in the
directory that you ran the flexbackup -extract command in.

The 'list-dir.pl' I use is just a simple perl script which filters the output
of the flexbackup -list command and prints the lines containing a given argument,
where that argument appears in a file path.  Here it is:

zimtok5.scott> more listdir.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

# extract list of files in a given subdirectory in the 'flexbackup -list'
# stream on sdtin.
#
# flexbackup -list afio-archive-name | listdir.pl user > files
#

use strict;

my $dir;

$dir = shift @ARGV;

while (<>) {
    chomp;
    if (/.*[\s]($dir\/.*)/) {
        print "$1\n";
    }
}
zimtok5.scott>

Hope this helps,

Scott

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