restore broken in 1.2?
Russell A. Heise
RAH at IBM.COM
Wed Jul 18 01:39:28 AEST 1990
kevin at msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) writes:
> "restore" appears to behave differently than documented with AIX 1.2.
> The doc states that the "-d" option ...
> Indicates that if <file> is a directory, all files in that directory
> should be restored.
>
> When I did a backup (with 1.1), I piped "find ./ -print" into "backup -x".
> I now attempt to restore (with 1.2) using
> restore -xdv -f /dev/rmt0 ./dirname
> and all that gets restored is "dirname" (i.e. the directory, and not its
> files). Has anyone else observed this behavior? Is it incorrect?
Yes, this behavior is incorrect and is a known problem. To resolve the
problem, you may wish to contact IBM defect support at (800) 237-5511
to get the latest AIX PS/2 updates.
Russ Heise, AIX Technical Support, IBM
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