.TH RESTOR 8 "1 April 1981"
restor \- incremental file system restore
is used to read tapes dumped with the
Its actions are controlled by the
is a string of characters containing
at most one function letter and possibly
one or more function modifiers.
Other arguments to the command are file or directory
names specifying which files are to be restored.
flag is specified (see below),
the appearance of a directory name refers to
the files and (recursively) subdirectories of that directory.
the key is specified by one of the following letters:
is read and loaded into the current directory.
asks which tape of a multi volume set to start on.
to be interrupted and then restarted.]
This should not be done lightly; the
option should only be used to restore
a complete dump tape onto a clear file system
or to restore an incremental dump tape onto this.
/etc/mkfs /dev/rrp0g 145673 ...
/etc/mount /dev/rp0g /mnt
is a typical sequence to restore a complete dump.
can be done to get an incremental dump
change the size of a file system.
The named files are extracted from the tape.
If the named file matches a directory whose contents
had been written onto the tape, this directory is (recursively) extracted.
The owner, modification time, and mode are restored (if possible).
If no file argument is given, the entire content of the
The names of the specified files are listed if they occur
If no file argument is given,
all of the names on the tape are listed.
Note that this key replaces the function of
The following characters may be used in addition to the letter
which selects the function desired.
option causes it to type the name of each file it treats
preceded by the function letter.
gives more information about the
tape entries than just the name.]
to use the next argument as the name of the archive instead
[If the name of the file is `\-',
reads from standard input.
can be used in a pipeline to dump and restore a file system
dump 0f - /usr | (cd /mnt; restor xf -) ]
not to complain if gets a tape error,
but simply to skip over the bad tape blocks and continue as
to extract by inode numbers rather than by file name.
to extract the actual directory,
rather than the files that it references.
/dev/rmt? the default tape drive
rst* the temporary file used by restor
Complaints about bad key characters.
Complaints if it gets a read error.
has been specified, or the user responds "y",
will attempt to continue the restore.
If the dump extends over more than one tape,
will ask the user to change tapes.
will also ask which volume the user wishes to mount.
The fastest way to extract a small number of files is to
start with the last volume, and work towards the first volume.]
The sections in brackets are not yet implemented.
option can only restore level zero dumps,
it cannot restore incremental dumps.