I agree that we are not focused on the original subject any longer. I am just 
surprised about the different statements i have seen during the discussion.

I have to agree that the option "-a" obviously can be omitted - see my examples 
below. As i mentioned earlier - if you are used to something, you will use it 
forever.
Unfortunately, i just have access to a Windows machine, so the renaming rules 
are following the NW/Windows naming convention.

Besides that you must take about these 2 issues:
  - Be extremely careful when recovering your data - otherwise you will 
overwrite your data ... as with any other recovery operation ;-)
  - NEVER try to redirect the media database - the path seems to be hard coded. 
    NW will always overwrite your current media index as clearly pointed out in 
the mmrecov entry screen!

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D:\>mminfo -q "name=bootstrap" -vot
 volume        type   client           date     time         size ssid      fl  
 lvl name
Test.001       file   <client_name> 20.03.2012 18:03:12 92 KB 4251516576 cr 
full bootstrap

D:\>
D:\>recover -S 4251516576 -a "E:\nsr\res"
Recovering files into their original locations.
Requesting 1 recover session(s) from server.
E:\nsr\res\nsrdb\00\0a00300f0000000063fc684f00000000c3d64622
E:\nsr\res\nsrdb\00\0a00300f0000000063fc684f00000000c3d64622 file exists, 
overwrite (n, y, N, Y) or rename (r, R) [r]? R

Renaming E:\nsr\res\nsrdb\00\0a00300f0000000063fc684f00000000c3d64622 to 
E:\nsr\res\nsrdb\00\~0a00300f0000000063fc684f00
000000c3d64622
E:\nsr\res\nsrdb\00\1400300f0000000063fc684f00000000c3d64622
E:\nsr\res\nsrdb\00\1400300f0000000063fc684f00000000c3d64622: File exists, 
renaming to E:\nsr\res\nsrdb\00\~1400300f0000
000063fc684f00000000c3d64622
  ...
E:\nsr\res\nsrladb\08\
E:\nsr\res\nsrladb\09\09007404000000005dfc684f00000000c3d64622
E:\nsr\res\nsrladb\09\09007404000000005dfc684f00000000c3d64622: File exists, 
renaming to E:\nsr\res\nsrladb\09\~09007404
000000005dfc684f00000000c3d64622
E:\nsr\res\nsrladb\09\
E:\nsr\res\nsrladb\
E:\nsr\res\
Received 120 matching file(s) from NSR server `networker.test64.com'
Recover completion time: 20.03.2012 18:08:35

D:\>

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D:\>mminfo -q "name=bootstrap" -vot
 volume        type   client           date     time         size ssid      fl  
 lvl name
Test.001       file   <client_name> 20.03.2012 18:03:12 92 KB 4251516576 cr 
full bootstrap

D:\>
D:\>recover -S 4251516576 "E:\nsr\res"
Recovering files into their original locations.
Requesting 1 recover session(s) from server.
E:\nsr\res\nsrdb\00\0a00300f0000000063fc684f00000000c3d64622
E:\nsr\res\nsrdb\00\0a00300f0000000063fc684f00000000c3d64622 file exists, 
overwrite (n, y, N, Y) or rename (r, R) [r]? R

Renaming E:\nsr\res\nsrdb\00\0a00300f0000000063fc684f00000000c3d64622 to 
E:\nsr\res\nsrdb\00\~00_0a00300f0000000063fc684
f00000000c3d64622
E:\nsr\res\nsrdb\00\1400300f0000000063fc684f00000000c3d64622
  ...
  ...
E:\nsr\res\nsrladb\08\
E:\nsr\res\nsrladb\09\09007404000000005dfc684f00000000c3d64622
E:\nsr\res\nsrladb\09\09007404000000005dfc684f00000000c3d64622: File exists, 
renaming to E:\nsr\res\nsrladb\09\~00_09007
404000000005dfc684f00000000c3d64622
E:\nsr\res\nsrladb\09\
E:\nsr\res\nsrladb\
E:\nsr\res\
Received 120 matching file(s) from NSR server `networker.test64.com'
Recover completion time: 20.03.2012 18:13:36

D:\>

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D:\>mminfo -q "name=bootstrap" -vot
 volume        type   client           date     time         size ssid      fl  
 lvl name
Test.001       file   <client_name>cls 20.03.2012 18:03:12 92 KB 4251516576 cr 
full bootstrap

D:\>
D:\>recover -d D:\Temp -S 4251516576 -a "E:\nsr\res"
Recovering a subset of 122 files within / into D:\Temp
Requesting 1 recover session(s) from server.
D:\Temp\E\nsr\res\nsrdb\00\0a00300f0000000063fc684f00000000c3d64622
D:\Temp\E\nsr\res\nsrdb\00\1400300f0000000063fc684f00000000c3d64622
  ...
D:\Temp\E\nsr\res\nsrladb\08\
D:\Temp\E\nsr\res\nsrladb\09\09007404000000005dfc684f00000000c3d64622
D:\Temp\E\nsr\res\nsrladb\09\
D:\Temp\E\nsr\res\nsrladb\
D:\Temp\E\nsr\res\
Received 120 matching file(s) from NSR server `networker.test64.com'
Recover completion time: 20.03.2012 18:10:23

D:\>

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