On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 at 8:07am, Alvaro Rosales R. wrote
> Is there a way to tell amrestore to restore the files from tape to a
> directory different than the original source? (just to make comparisons?
> of the file and to make sure that the file was correctly copied from the
> tape). Once again thanks for your help.
>
amrestore does not extract individual files from the tape -- it pulls off
the entire {dump|tar} image and puts that on disk as one file.
If you mean amrecover, then it will simply put files into whatever
directory in which you start it.
So, in short, yes.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
