On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 at 4:48pm, David.Lee AT arvatousa DOT com wrote

> The amanda on our system use 'gnutar' utility.
> The 'amdump' works. But, it doesn't save the absolute path.
> For example, when I ran 'amrestore  -p /dev/nst0 cat02 | tar tvf -', I  saw
> the following:
>     -rw-rw-r-- root/bin       2368 1998-08-13 11:50:32 ./f52_tub.im8
>     -rw-rw-r-- root/bin      12944 1998-08-13 11:50:33 ./f52_tus.im8 
>    -rw-rw-r-- root/bin       2720 1998-08-13 11:50:34 ./f53_tub.im8
>        ...
> 
> I want to see the absolute path like
> /usr/openwin/share/images/fish/f52_tub.im8 because this
> makes restore easier.
> 
> The following is a entry in the file 'disklist':
>    cat02  /usr/openwin/share/images/fish root-tar

That isn't how it works.  That isn't how it would work with dump.  Both 
utlities reference all files from the "mount point" -- that is, the disk 
list entry.  Period.

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