The answers from Joshua Baker-LePain were on target, but I wanted to
fill in one point.
>Basically I'm trying to get a feel for how amrestore works...
>i.e.-- I've backed up my /home directory which includes
>a couple dozen peoples home directories. Is it possible to
>restore only a part (like just the /home/joeschmoe dir) instead
>of the entire /home directory tree?
The question you're asking is about your restore program, not the Amanda
amrestore utility. The Amanda amrestore utility is responsible for
pulling an entire image back from tape. It's up to you and your restore
program (e.g. GNU tar) what to do with it.
All the restore programs Amanda currently works with (GNU tar and the
system restore command) allow you to select individual entries, so the
answer to your question is "yes", but maybe not quite the way you thought.
As Joshua pointed out, amrecover does this for you, and it does it by
running amrestore to get the whole image and pushing that via a pipe to
the restore program with just selected items to recover.
Amanda has absolutely no knowledge of the internal structure of a dump
image, be it GNU tar, a system dump program or whatever. It's only job
is to save it away and give the whole thing back on demand.
>Joe
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
