I was not in my root directory when I ran amrecover initially. When I moved to my root directory and then ran amrecover - I was able to view the tree of files/directories via the 'ls' command on my tape. thanks much: amadmin daily disklist cloudy1.com sda6 | grep index index YES ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:19:59 -0500 From: John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Denise Ives <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: listing files with amrecover - No index records for disk >200 Dump host set to cloudy1.com. >amrecover> ls >Must select a disk before listing files >amrecover> setdisk sda6 >501 No index records for disk: sda6. Invalid? First, find your index directory. Is there a directory in it named "cloudy1.com"? Is there a directory in that directory named "sda6"? And finally, are there gzip'd files in there? What do you get for this: amadmin <config> disklist cloudy1.com sda6 | grep index Does it say you've been gathering index files? John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]