> Ditto everything that Joshua says AND, > don't recover into anything but an empty directory on a > largly empty file system unless you know, and have practiced, > what you are doing. > > I have a pretty good idea what I'm doing, and I have > practiced this technique. Yet I still recover to an > empty directory. Then transfer things if I'm happy > with what was recovered.
This is sound advice and once I did this, all was basically well. Another point I would mention having successfully tackled this wonderful part of Amanda: make sure the good version of tar is first in your path when recovering. Part of the reason I had problems is that when I went to 'tar t' my image, it was using old, crappy tar in /usr/sbin/, not good, healthy tar in /usr/local/bin/ this led me to believe I was doing it wrong, when in fact I just needed to clarify my path situation. Thanks to Jon and Joshua, who as usual, have the answer and explain it well.
