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Re: Restoration of single file via amrestore?

2002-08-16 14:48:09
Subject: Re: Restoration of single file via amrestore?
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Wayne Byarlay <wab AT purdue DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:34:59 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 at 1:24pm, Wayne Byarlay wrote

> Is it possible to restore one particular file from tape, using amrestore
> (vs. amrecover from the client)? In "the book"(O'Reilly) it says, "The
> amrestore command restores whole images from tape." I'm assuming "images"
> means entire filesystems. Can you also get individual files...?

By piping the amrestore output to your recovery program, yes.

But you can also run amrecover on any machine and 'sethost' to the client 
for which you want to recover files.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University


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