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 -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
