Restore with tar

activeq · 01-09-2007, 05:18 AM

Hi,

It is possible to restore a folder with all it contents with tar?

i've made a test:

/home/test1/test2/test2/test.txt

I want to restore from folder test2 and its content, but tar don't let me do this.

command:
tar -xvf test.tar test2

tar reply: tar: test2: Not found in archive.

when I do tar -tvf test.tar i see test2 is in the archive.

Do i mis something?

Wim Sturkenboom · 01-09-2007, 06:04 AM

I think that you have to add parent directories. This depends on how you created it. But I'm not sure.

Code:

tar -xvf test.tar /home/test1/test2

I can however understand that tar does not like what you try to do as you have two directories called test2; how is tar supposed to know which one to extract?

activeq · 01-09-2007, 06:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wim Sturkenboom

I think that you have to add parent directories. This depends on how you created it. But I'm not sure.

Code:

tar -xvf test.tar /home/test1/test2

I can however understand that tar does not like what you try to do as you have two directories called test2; how is tar supposed to know which one to extract?

You're right. I already figured it out.

I have it quiet often spending many hours to solve a problem, post a question on a forum and then suddenly I got it.

Anyway...you confirmed my solution.

Thanks