On Monday 31 July 2006 13:56, Anne Wilson wrote:
>After the struggle to burn my tape-split backups onto DVD, I find myself
>wondering just how useful they are.  The current set of backups are still
> on hard drive, but what if I want to find an earlier copy of a file
> which has since been burned onto DVD?
>
>It seems to me that once vtapes are free for overwriting the
> corresponding index will be lost too.  Can either amrestore or amrecover
> actually access these files?

No, but dd with the right options, piped into tar or gzip & then tar can.
Thats one of the beautifull things about amanda, basic system tools can do 
a restore without amanda's help.

>Anne

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