On Nov 27, 2008, at 4:49 PM, rory_f wrote:
As amanda uses tar, you surely can restore a tape (or a portion of a tape, perhaps just a dle?) using the command line 'tar' command, right ?
no, amanda doesn't always use tar. See the latter part of the AMANDA chapter from "Backup and Recovery" for the commands to use "mt" and "dd" to extract files from the tapes and then use tar from the command line if that is how the backup was made.
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda_chapter_in_Backup_and_Recovery
