On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 at 4:20pm, Michael D. Schleif wrote

> Am I right that amrecover is useless *without* an index?

Yep.

> Also, using only amrestore, is it possible to get at individual
> files/directories, or is it only a matter of restoring the entire
> dump/tarball?

Yes, depending.  If you use dump, you can usually pipe amrestore to 
'restore -i', the interactive restore, which will let you pick and choose.  
If you use tar, you can do a 'tar t' to get a table of contents, and then 
'tar x myfile ./mydir/myfile2' to get  particular files.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University