Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 at 4:20pm, Michael D. Schleif wroteNo argument about it.
Am I right that amrecover is useless *without* an index?
Yep.
But, I don't keep index files along with the backup image on tape. Before running amrecover,
I would run a script to extract and recreate the index files and use them to run amrecover.
Are there any drawbacks to that scheme ???
Also, using only amrestore, is it possible to get at individual
files/directories, or is it only a matter of restoring the entire
dump/tarball?
Yes, depending. If you use dump, you can usually pipe amrestore to 'restore -i', the interactive restore, which will let you pick and choose. If you use tar, you can do a 'tar t' to get a table of contents, and then 'tar x myfile ./mydir/myfile2' to get particular files.
