reading a dump tape with no root directory?

Mon Jan 6 04:05:16 AEST 1986

In article <1712 at rocksvax.UUCP> z at rocksvax.UUCP (Jim Ziobro) writes:
>When dumping a damaged filesystem it is possible to create a dump file with
>no root directory.  On 4.2BSD at least this is a fatal error when restoring.
>Has anyone written some utilities to get files by inodes from a dump file?

If you just want to restore individual files, a 'restore x ...' should
do that.  If you want to restore all files to their proper places ...
I seem to remember someone making scripts to do that, but I'm not sure
whom.
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