See the example below. Amrestore normally writes output files in a format understood by restore or tar , even if the backups on the tape are compressed. With the -c option, amrestore writes all files in compressed format, even if the backups on the tape are not compressed. Output file names will have a .Z extension. This option is useful when the current directory disk is small.
Backup files are output exactly as they are on the tape, including the amdump file headers.
Output file names will have a .RAW extension. This option is only useful for debugging and other strange circumstances. The tape header block is output at the beginning of each file. Amrecover uses the header to determine the restore program to use. The following does an interactive restore of disk rz3g from host seine , to restore particular files.