On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 10:20:29PM -0400, C White wrote:
>i had the same problem recently, i just pulled all the tar files off the 
>tape on to my holding disk, expanded them on to the holding disk and 
>then put the files i need back into the appropriate system areas, /home 
>/var /etc
>
>i "su amanda" then changed my directory the to holding disk, which 
>amanda had full rights to and then with the tape in the drive ran 
>"amrestore /dev/nst0", it then copied my tar off the drive and put them 
>onto the holding disk and i went from there, it wasn't pretty but i 
>managed to revoer from there by directly expanding the appropriate tar 
>files into the directory i was recovering
>
>i hope this helps, if not then let me know what does, i'm keeping a 
>record of these things for an "ultimate disaster recovery" database


Oddly enough, amrecover works ;-) I was trying to preempt the recovery
process by trying to get the data before I got the box reinstalled. I didn't
get as new of a copy as I'd have liked but it's the newest on tape so I'm
happy.


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