[Box Backup] bbackupquery getobject

[Jérôme Schell]

Imran a écrit :
> Hi All,
>

Hello

> Ben or someone else can answer this.  If i do a 'getobject' in bbackupquery to
> download an old file using the object id or whatever, the file that I get is
> not what i want.  was trying to restore a php (i.e. text file) and what i got
> was a binary file.  Well this is the second time I did it.  First time I tried
> to restore some file a little while ago, and had the same problem.  Actually
> the reason i was trying to do getobject before was because I only wanted one
> file (12kb perl script i believe) out of the backup store.  and the restore
> thing doesn't allow for single files... i guess that should be a feature
> request.  restoring the whole dir was out of the question, because it was
> about 12gigs.  Anyway, getobject gave me the binary result as well.  Ended up
> starting the restore of the whole directory, and then I ctrl-break cancelled
> the restore about 20 seconds in to.  Was hoping (correctly) that it restored
> the root of the directory first before restoring subdirs.    anyway, forgot to
> ask about it the first time.
> 
> Anyway, is the file i have compressed?  or encrypted or what?
> 

Just try yo type "help getobject" in bbackupquery you will understand 
your problem :)
You should use "get" to do what you want.

-- 
Jérôme