gzip and dump

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Fri Nov 21 15:10:37 PST 2008


> I lost my Hard Drive and all my many tens of thousands of emails.
>
> Thus, my excellent repository of answers from this list were sent to oblivion.
>
> I make dumps using gzip and forget the command line to restore files from the zipped dump.
>
> I use the command line like:
>
> dump 0 -h0 -uaLf - /home | gzip > dumpfile.gz
>
> If someone cand remind me the proper way to restore a file I would be greatful.
>
cd /target/directory

zcat dumpfile.gz|restore -rf -



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