View backup contents and restore specific file or directory

[alexandreteles]

Please, make CDP provide a way to see the files inside backups and restore backups in a per file/dir way Ex.: I want to see if /etc/any.conf exists and restore it to the original node or for other.

Tar provides a way to list all files inside a tarball. You can find it at tar man(1) doc:

tar -tvf archive.tar
# List all files in archive.tar verbosely.

This should work for compressed files as well. Just put the flag that matches the compression algorithm that you have used:

$ tar -ztvf sometarfile.tar.gz

or

$ tar -jtvf sometarfile.tar.bz2

or any other algorithm.

If you are compressing with gzip or just putting files together without compressing it, you can use less:

$ less sometarfile.tar.gz

Less provides a very graceful output, just like ls -l. And tar does have a function to pull just one file or directory from one archive too:

$ tar -zxvf sometarfile.tar.gz somedir/subdir/justafile

If you want to pull a dir you just use the same command but point to the dir path inside the tar file. Note that you dont use a / at the beginning of the internat tar dir path:

$ tar -zxvf sometarfile.tar.gz somedir/subdir/

This works for any compression algo. used to compress the tarball. You can extract all files that match a wildcard inside the tar file:

tar -zxvf sometarfile.tar.gz --wildcards --no-anchored '*.conf'

Or the same wildcard inside a specific dir:

tar -zxvf sometarfile.tar.gz somedir/subdir/ --wildcards '*.conf'

Thank you for your time.