Also sprach Joshua Baker-LePain (Thu 03 Jul 02003 at 05:41:32PM -0400):
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 at 4:20pm, Michael D. Schleif wrote
> 
> > Am I right that amrecover is useless *without* an index?
> 
> Yep.
> 
> > Also, using only amrestore, is it possible to get at individual
> > files/directories, or is it only a matter of restoring the entire
> > dump/tarball?
> 
> Yes, depending.  If you use dump, you can usually pipe amrestore to 
> 'restore -i', the interactive restore, which will let you pick and choose.  
> If you use tar, you can do a 'tar t' to get a table of contents, and then 
> 'tar x myfile ./mydir/myfile2' to get  particular files.

This is where I'm getting lost:

    # sudo mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind

    # sudo tar tvf /dev/nst0
    tar: /dev/nst0: Cannot read: Cannot allocate memory
    tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

What do you think?

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