How to restore a single file in aix?
If we want to restore a file named healthcheck.ksh from mksysb use the below.
Checking the healthcheck.ksh file existing in the mksysb image.
restore -T -q -l -f /backup/uktest.mksysb | grep healthcheck.ksh
It will list out the detailed output and at the end it will display the file which we need to recover
-rwxr-xr-x- 10 staff May 30 11:54 267 ./home/unixsa/healthcheck.ksh
Restore the particular file healthcheck.ksh using,
restore -x -q -f /backup/uktest.mksysb ./home/unixsa/healthcheck.ksh
Please note that (.) is important before the file name
cd ./home/unixsa
ls -la healthcheck.ksh
-rwxr-xr-x- 10 staff May 30 11:54 267 ./home/unixsa/healthcheck.ksh
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Another method:
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#lsmksysb -lf /backup/uktest.mksysb
# restorevgfiles -f /backup/uktest.mksysb ./home/unixsa/healthcheck.ksh
New volume on uktest.mksysb
Cluster size is 51200 bytes (100 blocks).
The volume number is 1.
The backup date is: Tue May 30 11:54:18 GMT+01:00 2017
Files are backed up by name.
The user is root.
x 267 ./home/unixsa/healthcheck.ksh
The total size is 267 bytes.
The number of restored files is 1.
# ls -la */*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 6 Feb 17 11:16 ./home/unixsa/healthcheck.ksh
