On Thursday 08 August 2002 13:14, Mark Steiger wrote:
>> Do the recovery to a scratch area, then use a file manager to
>> copy back anything in the recovery thats newer than the main
>> restore.
>
>I'd like to restore it directly to the live filesystem if
> something has changed.  Is this possible?

One could, but then you run the risk of losing any data thats been 
modified since the recovery.  Maybe tar has some switches to 
control that.  Check the manpage...  It would be nice to not have 
to sort all that manually, thats for sure.

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Cheers, Gene
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