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IntroductionThis is part of a series of articles on backing up computers. The top page is Design for an Archiving Backup System.This page describes the command line syntax of the arcvpkgrestore.py program. PurposeThe arcvpkgrestore.py program is a last-resort utility to restore data that is contained in a package file.You might want to use this in the event that you have a package file which is not in your version database (perhaps it is from an earlier backup cycle). If this is the case the preferred approach is to build a small temporary version database using the arcvdbrebuild.py command and then use either the arcvrestore.py or arcvrestoregui.py commands to extract the files you need. However, if you just want to quickly extract a copy of all the files in the package without worrying about the directory tree, then this command can be used. One other limitation is that this command cannot restore a file that spans two package files. If this is the case you need to use the longer route of building a temporary version database as explained above. SyntaxThe arcvpkgrestore.py program does not get any configuration information from the config.ini file.The full command syntax is: arcvpkgrestore [-h] [-d dirname] [-f filename] -p package where items in the square brackets are optional. The only required parameter is the -p package which is the name of a single package file, the contents of which will be extracted to the current directory (unless the -d parameter is used). OptionsThe -h parameter will bring up a short syntax help prompt and then stop.The -d parameter specifies the name of a directory that the contents of the package will be extracted to. The -f parameter specifies the name of a single file within the package that is to be extracted. The name needs to be the full path name of the file (use the arcvpkglist.py command to see these full names). |