> 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?
Usually I do this by just making sure that, when starting amrecover, I'm NOT at the root of the filesystem where the original file(s) were backed up from. For example, if I want to restore /var/db/mysql/somedatabase/sometable.* to an alternate location, I just cd to /home/toomas, run amrecover from there and the files get restored as /home/toomas/var/db/mysql/somedatabase/sometable.*. Amrecover even warns you that you're not at the root of correct filesystem, but in this case that's exactly what you want. > (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.) Uh oh. I've never had to use Amanda + Samba, so I'm not sure if any of above is applicable to this situation. Maybe you can smbmount (does such a term exist?) some other share on the Windows machine on the Linux client, cd to there and then run amrecover. -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
