Received plenty of responses. Roy G. Culley's <tgdcuro1@gd2.swissptt.ch>
mail was the first with the correct solution :
dd if=/dev/rst6 bs=4096 | gunzip -c | tar xfBp - MAIL/official
Thanks a lot Roy. Thanks to others also who responded :-
"Borba, Wilter" <WBorba@bse.com.uy>
Rich Kulawiec <rsk@itw.com>
Shivakumar D R <drsk@india.ti.com>
Mr Rene Occelli <rene@iusti.univ-mrs.fr>
Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>
Frank Cusack <fcusack@voicenet.com>
robin.landis@exim.gov
Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@tux.org>
Michael Hill <Hill.Michael@tci.com>
"MALLARD, Derek" <dmallard@shl.com>
Jay Lessert <jayl@latticesemi.com>
David Thorburn-Gundlach <david@bae.uga.edu>
Peter Bestel <peter.bestel@uniq.com.au>
Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child} <Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au>
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Original Question:-
>Hi Sunners,
>
>I take backups with the following command :
>
> tar cvfp - MAIL | gzip -c | dd of=/dev/rst6 bs=4096
>
>Under the MAIL directory there is a huge number of files. I need to
>extract MAIL/official only. How do I do it?
>
>Thanks for your help. Will summarize to the list.
>
Regards,
Pravin
prchavan@pcsbom.patni.com