Tar restore single file

I have dumped a single file to tape also because looking through the other threads, I noticed that you have to tell it to skip files before you get to RedHat Commands. OpenSolaris Commands. Linux Commands. SunOS Commands. FreeBSD Commands. Full Man Repository. Advanced Search. Contact Us. Forum Rules.

Mark Forums Read. Thread Tools. View Public Profile for rahmantanko. But the result is I can only extract the testfile1 to the current working directory, rather than the anotherDirectory. The problem is that your arguments are in incorrect order. The single file argument must be last. PS: You should have asked this question on superuser instead of SO. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?

Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. I'm encountering issues by trying to Hi folks, I have an image backup of an entire file system Solaris 9 on N on a tar file. How can I use this tar file to retore my system? Thanks, omd 1 Reply. Hi, On my Unix Server in my directory, I have 70 files distributed in the following directories which have several other files too.

Hi all, How to untar a file with. A utility that i downloaded from net had this extension. Thanks in advance, bubeshj. Thanks in advanced. Question regarding tar restore. I created a relative backup of my home directory using tar into a file named backup. No problem there. Our first move, in this case, is to change to the root directory. We verify the location with the command pwd. Using sudo to preface the tar command, we extract our archive. If your account is different then use the path to your home folder and tar file.

If we only needed to extract a single file from the archive we could make use of the following command where only the host file is extracted:. We can see that we are able to use tar as a flexible solution to archive and restore files.

This said I am sure that you have a question relating to forcing a restore to the original location. We will look at this next.