On 2006-04-27 12:39, Olivier Nicole wrote:

Hi,

What are the correct arguments to pass to gnutar when it is used with
an amrestore?

amrestore -p /dev/nsa0 machine disk | gtar xf??? -

These are the flags that amrecover uses to be able to restore
incremental backups (= erase files too!!!!!):

  ...| gtar --numeric-owner -xpGvf -  [files-to-restore-defaults-to-all]

Note that the "-G" flag can result in files being ERASED (those
that did not exist when the backup was made).  You may omit it.

The "--numeric-owner" was not added in 2.4.x or earlier.

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Restoring_files#Using_amrestore

Of course you may add flags to tune gtar to your particular need
in for the restore case you have.




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