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Commands tagged restore

Terminal - Commands tagged restore - 4 results

tar xfzO <backup_name>.tar.gz | mysql -u root <database_name>

2011-02-10 22:18:42

User: alecnmk

Functions: tar

Tags: mysql pipe restore tar mysqldump tar.gz

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restore .tar.gz on the fly

`tar xfzO` extracts to STDOUT which got redirected directly to mysql. Really helpful, when your hard drive can't fit two copies of non-compressed database :)

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git diff --numstat | awk '{if ($1 == "0" && $2 == "0") print $3}' | xargs git checkout HEAD

2009-09-17 22:12:50

User: lingo

Functions: awk diff xargs

Tags: git restore permissions modified files

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(Git) Revert files with changed mode, not content

I sometimes (due to mismanagement!) end up with files in a git repo which have had their modes changed, but not their content. This one-liner lets me revert the mode changes, while leaving changed-content files be, so I can commit just the actual changes made.

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lomount -diskimage /path/to/your/backup.img -partition 1 /mnt/foo

2009-07-22 11:32:52

User: olorin

Tags: backup Linux mount mount point sfdisk image partition recovery restore

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Mount a partition from within a complete disk dump

Instead of calculating the offset and providing an offset option to mount, let lomount do the job for you by just providing the partition number you would like to loop mount.

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2009-03-06 21:29:13

User: Alanceil

Functions: grep head mount sed tail

Tags: backup Linux mount mount point sfdisk image partition recovery restore

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Mount a partition from within a complete disk dump

Suppose you made a backup of your hard disk with dd:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/disk/backup.img

This command enables you to mount a partition from inside this image, so you can access your files directly.

Substitute PARTITION=1 with the number of the partition you want to mount (returned from sfdisk -d yourfile.img).