amrestore with tar empty directories at mountpoints

[Nick Brockner]

Hi All.

I am new to amanda, and maybe I just don't understand how it works, but 
here is my problem:

I have a remote machine that I back up over my network.  The backups and 
everything go fine.  I am doing a disaster recovery test today, and it 
went all wrong.  Very, very wrong.  I have a DLE in disklists for "/" of 
this remote host.  The problem is that on this host, I have several 
different partitions mounted at /usr, /var/ /home, . . . you get the 
idea, and when the backup of the "/" DLE happenes, empty directories are 
created for all the mountpoints! (I am using GNUTAR).  So, when I tried 
to do a bare-metal restore, it clobbered my base install by overwriting 
all the mountpoints with empty directories, and I couldn't restore the 
rest of the partitions because the base install was hosed.

Can anyone help me / tell me what to do in order to get tar not to 
create these empty directories at the other mountpoints?

Thanks,
Nick Brockner