help with Tob file restoration

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#625

Author: rc_collins
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 00:00

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Please help!

I am having trouble restoring a directory from tape with Tob.  I have
been using it for awhile and have restored files, but never a complete
directory.

I use:

tob -restore /where/the/file/is/file.txt

to restore a file, but when I run

tob -restore /where/the/file/is/

no worky.  it just spins through the whole 20GB tape and then I find
out 30 minutes later that nothing was restored.

sorry for the cross-posts but I am freaking out.

thanks.


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Re: help with Tob file restoration

#626

Author: Marc D. Williams
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 00:00

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On Tue, 30 May 2000 19:39:15 GMT, 
rc_collins@my-deja.com <rc_collins@my-deja.com> wrote:
>Please help!
>
>I am having trouble restoring a directory from tape with Tob.  I have
>been using it for awhile and have restored files, but never a complete
>directory.
>
>I use:
>
>tob -restore /where/the/file/is/file.txt
>
>to restore a file, but when I run
>
>tob -restore /where/the/file/is/
>
>no worky.  it just spins through the whole 20GB tape and then I find
>out 30 minutes later that nothing was restored.
>

Try it with quotes. Something like this should work.

tob -restore '/where/the/file/is/*'

It's best to use the quotes even when restoring single files in
case a certain character in the file name gets expanded.
For instance just a couple of days ago I tried to restore some older
files. glib-1.2.6.tar.gz was fine but nothing happened when trying to
restore gtk+-1.2.6.tar.gz. The plus (+) was the problem.

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