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This How-To is quite old. SME 6.0 is now setup to backup differently than previous versions.

Per Darrell May: If you wish to perform interactive restores, configure flexbackup to use dump. Any other backup will not be browsable.

/sbin/e-smith/config setprop flexbackup Type dump

/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/flexbackup.conf

The following executable script file (flexbackup-restore) is in my /root directory. It assumes you have a sharedfiles ibay setup and restores files there. You will need to chown the files in order for Windows PC's to see the directory structure.

mkdir /home/e-smith/files/ibays/sharedfiles/files/restore

cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/sharedfiles/files/restore

/bin/mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind

/bin/mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1

/usr/bin/flexbackup -restore

/bin/mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind


If you would like to make a "How to restore individual files from disk using flexbackup on SME6" How to out of this, let me know, here. wiki, or web page is fine. (RonM)