On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 at 11:59am, Dave Sherohman wrote > I recently returned from a vacation to discover that a database app had > decided to do strange things about a week and a half ago. There was > no damage to the data (just a bunch of spurious reports printed), but > the app's vendor would like to see what the database looked like before > this happened. There is no concern that the active database may have > been damaged. > > Now, I know how to use amrecover to restore the files to their original > location, but overwriting the active database would be Very Bad, so how > do I restore them to a different location? (I doubt that it matters, > but, just in case, the database directory is on a Windows machine which > is backed up by a Linux client via samba.)
Just be somewhere else (in the fs, that is) when you fire up amrecover. amrecover restores to the $CWD. Alternatively, just amrestore the image off the tape and manually 'tar x' what you need. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
