Or also the "-t" flag to get a list in tape and find to get a list in
disk.

# amrestore /dev/tape host /disk 
# tar -tvf host_disk.0 > /tmp/list_of_files_in_tape
# find /disk -exec ls -l {} \; -print > /tmp/list_of_files_in_disk
# diff /tmp/list_of_files* 

Jordi

>On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 14:25:24  0200 Christoph Scheeder
<christoph.scheeder AT scheeder DOT de> wrote.
>Hmmm,
>i don't know of a tool doing this with amanda-tapes,
>but if you used tar to do the backups you could use amrestore
>to get back the image of the partition /dir inquestion and then give
>tar the "-k " option. It tells tar to keep existing files and only to
>restore files from the archiv which are not present on disk.......
>This way you let tar do the work of comparing the files and the tape.
>Christoph
>
>Trevor Fraser wrote:
>
>> Hello all.
>> 
>> I was asked if there was a tool, not necessarily graphical, but that will
be
>> better, that can compare what is on a tape to the directory the
information
>> on the tape comes from and notify the user of any missing files.  Is
there
>> anything like this around?
>> 
>> The aim is to find an efficient way of seeing what file was accidentally
>> deleted (don't know name/location), without going through a pain staking
>> process of checking 20 GB of files against a tape.
>> 
>> 
>> Let me know.
>> Thanks, Trevor.
>> 
>> =========================
>> Stussy said:"Knowledge is King!
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>> 
>> 
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