On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:32:07AM -0600, Darren Landrum wrote:
> [restoring to a temporary location]
> 
> Is Amanda capable of this kind of operation?

Yes.

And your boss is right :-)  When restoring individual files (as
opposed to disaster-recovering an entire partition), doing it
this way is much safer than restoring in place, and is often
recommended on this list.  Besides allowing you to inspect the
files, it guards against user error in doing the restore (e.g.
restoring files you didn't mean to, thereby clobbering the
current versions).

>From amrecover(8):
>   In  order  to  restore files in place [i.e. to do what you
>   want *not* to do] you must invoke amrecover from the root of
>   the backed up filesystem, or use lcd to move into that
>   directory, otherwise a directory tree that resembles the
>   backed up filesystem will be created in the current
>   directory.
>   [...]
>   If you do not want to overwrite existing files, create a
>   subdirectory to run amrecover from and then move the restored
>   files afterward.

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