> Wondering if anyone can help with the following:
> I'm trying to restore files from a directory on a SUN UNIX Client V3.1.06
> (Yes I know it's old).Server version 4.1.4 on NT.
> The directory is visible to the GUI but it's contents are empty, I've tried
> using the command line and it cant find the files either.
> However if I view the contents of one of the tapes storing that clients
> files I can see files contained in the relevant directory ?
>
> Has anyone else ever experienced anything like this and if so is there a
> solution ?

I have seen this kind of behavior with two different causes. One of the
possibilities was already noted by another respondant: the account running
the restores is not root and not the owner of the files. The other
possibility is that the backups are inactive. Inactive backups are either
backups of files that have since been deleted from the host or backups of
older versions of files that have since been updated. On the command line
one has to specify the '-inactive' option to make inactive backups appear.
As nearly as I can recall, the analogous procedure for the GUI is to pull
down the 'View' menu and check the 'Display active and inactive files'
box.