Topic: How to restore a single file using DAR

[Bozely]

Hi all,

I have for a long time used DAR on the command line to restore folders but have never been able to restore a file inside a directory.

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dar -R / -x /zip/linux_full -v -g home/docs/my_precious_directory
Restores perfectly but when I specify a single file like so

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dar -R / -x /zip/linux_full -v -g home/docs/my_precious_file.txt
It goes through the archive but restores nothing. What am I missing?

As far as I can tell I am following the manual
http://dar.sourceforge.net/doc/Tutorial.html

[holck]

I have had problems with this myself. I've found this way to do it:

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mkdir recoverdir                                            # Create a temporary directory
cd recoverdir                                                 # ... and enter the directory
dar -x myfiles.dar -g home/docs/my_precious_directory    # extract  the sub-directory with the precious file
mv my_precious_file.txt /home/docs/my_precious_directory # and put it back where it belongs
cd ..
rm -r -f recoverdir                                              # clean up
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It's not elegant, but it works ...

[Bozely]

Thanks,

Exactly how I've worked around this until yesterday when I needed to restore one small file in a huge directory and I didn't want to restore the whole thing.

Hoping there is something more concrete on how to do this, may end up writing a custom script...