Russ,
That's easy, just cd to /var/tmp before processing restore command.
Cheers,
Bing Shen
Computer Systems Officer
Queensland University of Technology
On Wed, 18 Jan 1995, Russell A. Fink wrote:
>
> Hopefully the subject described what I need.
>
> I did a dump of a filesystem, hypothetically called /x, to
> tape. Now, I want to restore a chunk of it, specifically
> /x/y/z where z is a file, but I want to restore it in such
> a way that I can not have it overwrite the existing /x/y/z
> in my system.
>
> Is there a way to specify a new "root" area, say /var/tmp,
> so that restore will pull /x/y/z off of tape, and put it into
> /var/tmp/x/y/z?
>
> Thanks much,
> Russ Fink
>
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Received on Thu Jan 19 1995 - 00:37:52 NZDT