restore

[Robert Meyer]

Nope.  Restore is intended to restore entire filesystems.  You can pull
individual files but it doesn't do an 'artificial intelligence' type restore. 
It doesn't know what you want, it just restores the whole mess.

You probably have to do a restore to another directory and then copy over
anything that is missing.

Cheers!

Bob
--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
> Hi.  I've been reading the restore man page and getting confused.  What 
> I would like to do is run restore such that any missing or newer file is 
> restored.
> 
> My source is /mnt/portable/root00[123] (made with dump).
> 
> My destination is /usr/bin
> 
> /usr/bin has a bunch of stuff in it, but a bunch also seems to be 
> missing - notably:
> kdm, gdm, mdkkdm, wine.bin .
> 
> If necessary, I can write a bash script to restore the files somewhere 
> temporary and move them over one by one after testing dates, etc., but I 
> hope there's a better way than that!
> 
> Any input would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Joe
> 
> -- 
> "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;
> and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." --Albert
> Einstein
> 
> 
> 


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