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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:49:22 -0500
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>, Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Subject:   Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System
Message-ID:  <20090129014922.GA99132@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <ae4324ed0901281652l68474a2cx159fc8c067605699@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200901272230.n0RMUsk7035006@dc.cis.okstate.edu> <20090128225015.GA22170@gsp.org> <20090129005050.J26376@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <ae4324ed0901281652l68474a2cx159fc8c067605699@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:52:40PM -0500, Jaime wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Wojciech Puchar
> <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> > dump is perfect. period.
> 
> Is it possible to pull out individual files?  A fellow sysadmin asked
> me that years ago and I didn't have an answer for him.


Very easily.    Just use restore -i

Usually when I do that, I make a special direcory to receive things.
(I usually call it  'unroll')  That way I can put what I want there
and then move it to where I want to, even if it is different from
where it originally was.    

////jerry


> 
> Thanks,
> Jaime
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