Installation guide

answer yes when you are restoring the entire root

directory.

setmodes

Sets owner, access modes, and ﬁle creation times for

all directories that have been added to the

ﬁles-to-read list; no ﬁles are recovered from the

tape. Use this command to clean up ﬁles after a

restore command has been prematurely aborted.

verbose

Toggles verbose mode. In verbose mode, each ﬁle

name is printed to the standard output. By default,

verbose mode is set to off. This is the same as the

−v command line option to the restore command.

help

Lists a summary of the interactive commands.

what

Lists the tape header information.

quit

Quits the interactive restore session.

xit

Exits from the interactive restore session. The xit

command is the same as the quit command.

To interactively restore the ./working/file1 and ./working/file2

ﬁles from a backup tape, load the tape and enter:

# restore -i

Once in interactive mode, follow these steps to add the ﬁles to the list of

ﬁles to be extracted:

1. Change to the working directory:

restore > cd working

2. At the prompt, enter the ﬁle name.

restore > add file1

3. Enter the name of the second ﬁle.

restore > add file2

4. Extract the ﬁles.

restore > extract

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