Hi all,

I'm trying to work out how to restore a specific file (or group of
files) using amrestore and the output from amrecover's list command.

ie: I use amrecover to select a bunch-o-files, and then type 'list
/tmp/restore_me'... the file /tmp/restore_me contains data like this:

TAPE Daily-02 LEVEL 0 DATE 2003-05-17
        /bar/quux
TAPE Daily-05 LEVEL 0 DATE 2003-05-20
        /foo
        /bar/baz

I am trying to write a script that will parse this, and (automagically
knowing the right host and DLE) will restore these files into a specific
directory. However, i can't even construct an amrestore command to do
so...

These are some of my attempts (where host is localhost and the relevant
DLE is /export/home):

sudo amrestore -p /dev/nst0 localhost /export/home 20030520|tar tvf -
sudo amrestore -p /dev/nst0 localhost _export_home 20030520|tar tvf -
sudo amrestore -p /dev/nst0 localhost./export/home.20030520|tar tvf -
sudo amrestore -p /dev/nst0 localhost._export_home.20030520|tar tvf -
sudo amrestore -p /dev/nst0 localhost /export/home 20030520 0|tar tvf -
sudo amrestore -p /dev/nst0 localhost _export_home 20030520 0|tar tvf -
sudo amrestore -p /dev/nst0 localhost./export/home.20030520.0|tar tvf -
sudo amrestore -p /dev/nst0 localhost._export_home.20030520.0|tar tvf -

But no matter what, I seem to come up with the same thing:

amrestore:   0: skipping start of tape: date 20030520 label Daily-00
amrestore:   1: skipping localhost._boot.20030520.0
amrestore:   2: skipping localhost._.20030520.0
amrestore:   3: skipping localhost._usr.20030520.0
amrestore:   4: skipping localhost._export_home.20030520.0
amrestore:   5: reached end of tape: date 20030520

It appears to me as if it's sckipping the very record I want (#4)...

What am I doing wrong?

rr

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