Thanks for your reply and sorry to bother you again...
i dumped my file on to holding disk and trying to restore from the client.
i have set index to yes.
my holding file is on a machine xxx in the directory /var/tmp
the backep up file that i want to restore is 20010913/<IP>/_dev_sda5.0
(under /var/tmp)
can you kindly tell me the syntax of the amrestore command i need to run on
the client machine. I tried to follow the example from amrestore man page,
but it says no such file exists.
i must be making some mistake in the command syntax