[Veritas-bu] Can you Restore ONLY Directories from a Full Backup

[Stephens, John]

Not exactly.  I want NBU to restore these, not me creating them by hand.
What I would really want is to pass the restore command an
include/exclude list of files and directories.  When you have hundreds
of systems to recover in a DR exercise, I want directory place holders
in place.  For example: application log files - if the directories are
not there, it won't log - like NBU.  There is no need to recover old log
files in a DR exercise, just get the application up as fast as you can,
so to save time why recover unneeded files.  You would say, why back
them up?  But you should always cover your six. :) 

John D Stephens
jstephens at ti.com

-----Original Message-----
From: James Pattinson [mailto:jamesp at hisser.org] 
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 5:06 AM
To: Stephens, John
Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Can you Restore ONLY Directories from a Full
Backup

Hi

Running "bplist  -R | grep /$" from the root of the directory structure 
you want to restore will give you a list of directories that were 
backed up.

You could use the -s and -e options to restrict to a certain backup, 
and then just create the directories from that output using a for loop 
or something.

I hope that's what you meant!

James

On 21 Oct 2004, at 23:40, Stephens, John wrote:

>
> NBU Admins -
>
> We have a need to restore only the directory structure, like log
> directories but not the log files, of a FULL Backup.  Is this possible
> from the command line?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> John D Stephens
> jstephens at ti.com
>
>
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