Jesus how could this happen!! I was going to recover the /usr/local
directory that i backup up earlier. I forgot to move to a new empty test
directory and I issued the extract command on my /root directory.
For my despair, before the tar begins to extract the backup files, it simply
deleted ALL /root contents, and did it without issuing any question!!
AAAAHHHHHHH HELP!!! HEELLLPPPPP!!!!

How can amanda function this way? why doesn´t it simply overwrite the
existing files, as is the common "tar -xtvz" behaviour.

See bellow the shameless tar messages about "cleaning up" all my /root
directory!!:

./
tar: Deleting `./install.log'
tar: Deleting `./install.log.syslog'
tar: Deleting `./.gconfd'
tar: Deleting `./.bash_logout'
tar: Deleting `./.Xresources'
tar: Deleting `./anaconda-ks.cfg'
tar: Deleting `./.bash_profile'
tar: Deleting `./.bashrc'
tar: Deleting `./.cshrc'
tar: Deleting `./.tcshrc'
tar: Deleting `./.gtkrc'
tar: Deleting `./.gconf'
tar: Deleting `./.gnome'
tar: Deleting `./.gnome2'
tar: Deleting `./.gnome2_private'
tar: Deleting `./.Xauthority'
tar: Deleting `./.nautilus'
tar: Deleting `./.gnome-desktop'
tar: Deleting `./.ICEauthority'
tar: Deleting `./.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2'
tar: Deleting `./.fonts.cache-1'
tar: Deleting `./.metacity'
tar: Deleting `./.rhn-applet.conf'
tar: Deleting `./.esd_auth'
tar: Deleting `./.xauthnOkAMC'
tar: Deleting `./.gftp'
tar: Deleting `./.bash_history'
tar: Deleting `./pacotes'
tar: Deleting `./.ssh'
tar: Deleting `./perl'
tar: Deleting `./COMANDOS_DE_REDE'
tar: Deleting `./mbox'
tar: Deleting `./sh'
tar: Deleting `./.mozilla'
tar: Deleting `./.cpan'
tar: Deleting `./.viminfo'
tar: Deleting `./.gnupg'
tar: Deleting `./zz-vim1'
tar: Deleting `./usr'
tar: Deleting `./comandos-legais'
tar: Deleting `./INSTALACAO-DO-CURSES.PM'
tar: Deleting `./amanda-2.4.4p1.tar.gz'
tar: Deleting `./.xauthTagUCD'
tar: Deleting `./zz-vim2'
tar: Deleting `./.Trash'
./bin/
./doc/
./etc/
./games/
./include/
./lib/
(and the backup extraction continued....)

How!! How!!

On the amrecover manual there isn´t a warning like "DANGER: THE RESTORING
PROCESS CAN ALSO DELETE ALL YOU FILES..."

....

bruno negrao.