I've previously seen Amanda installed in such a way that you could run something like
amrestore -p /dev/nst0 host /filesystem | restore ivf - Which gives a basic shell on the tape so you can restore individual items. I understand that this was possible because comp-root backup had been used on an entire filesystem, as I've tried on a sub-directory (as is needed here) and it returns an error which google lead me to a post on zmanda explaining comp-root can only be used on filesystems. So, with the current set up its using comp-root-tar: define dumptype comp-root-tar { root-tar comment "Root partitions with compression" compress client fast index exclude list "/var/lib/amanda/exclusions.txt" } Is it possible to restore from this backup interactively or is it only possible to untar the whole dump from this particular DLE, then take what I want then discard the rest? If its not possible to do it interactively can anyone suggest a way of backing up a subdirectory on a filesystem then restore particular files from that backup? Many thanks, john