SUMMARY: automating vxrestore

Hi,

Useful sugestions from 

Mark Hargrave, Marian Dragomir and Reggie Beavers.  

use vxrestore -rf   (requires some care and may not be 
applicable in every case but I'll try it)

insert an additional entry into the brackets ie
 
gunzip --stdout file.gz | (cd dest_dir; vxrestore -xf -
 ; /usr/bin/echo "y")

and use HERE structure

command << END
y
END

I'll fool around with these options and see what works 
best for my specific situation. 

Cheers


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I'm sure this is FAQable but can't find it and can't 
download the FAQ right now (firewall block on ftp).

I want to automate a load of parallel restores of 
compressed vxdumps.

The basic command is something like

gunzip --stdout whatever.gz | (cd whereever; vxrestore -
xf -)

Easy enough until it gets to answering that annoying 
"set owner/mode for "." "

If I want to background the restores then how do I get 
the y or n in as required?

I've used a temporary and very ugly solution of not 
backgrounding the restores, firing them all off in 
parallel then just hitting n a load of times and letting 
type-ahead take care of it.

Not pretty but it got the job done.

Any ideas gratefully accepted.

Cheers
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