>From what I understand amrecover runs from the client machine, and I'd
rather run the restores on the server, then move what I have to back to
the client manually.

Moving on from this a little though, I've used an existing dumptype
(from before I started here) and if I try to restore anything I get the
following message:

===
% /usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 autonomy.deanst.rroom.net
/mnt_f/Websites | tar -xvf -

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Error 32 (Broken pipe) offset 32768+32768, wrote 0
amrestore: pipe reader has quit in middle of file. 
===

The DLE:
autonomy.deanst.rroom.net       /mnt_f/Websites
comp-root-tar-win

And the dump type:
define dumptype comp-root-tar-win {
    root-tar
    comment "Root partitions with compression"
    compress client fast
    index
}

Thanks,

jc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org 
> [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie
> Sent: 04 May 2006 15:05
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: Backing up sub directories and interactive restores
> 
> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:13:20AM +0100, John Clement wrote:
> > I've previously seen Amanda installed in such a way that 
> you could run 
> > something like
> > 
> > amrestore -p /dev/nst0 host /filesystem | restore ivf -
> > 
> > Which gives a basic shell on the tape so you can restore individual 
> > items.
> 
> Is there a reason you are unable to use amrecover?
> 
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