> 
> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to recover *only* the files that were backed up in an 
> incrmental backup?

Haven't tried it, but I imagine that a saveset recover of the
incremental save set would do that.

> Here's my situation. I have to migrate data from one machine to another, and 
> my best option
> may turn out to be restoring from tape.  Since I'de like to reduce my 
> downtime, I would like
> to try this method:
> - do a full backup of old machine
> - restore full backup to new machine while old machine is still in production
> - take old machine out of production and do incremental
> - restore only the data that was changed and is on the incremental to the new 
> machine.

Any chance you have net connectivity and could use 'rsync' after the
initial 'full backup' is recovered?

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