Amrecover browses the database of Amanda index files to determine which tapes contain files to recover. In order to restore files in place, you must invoke amrecover from the root of the backed up filesystem, or use lcd to move into that directory, otherwise a directory tree that resembles the backed up filesystem will be created in the current directory. See the examples below for details.
Usage is similar to an ftp client.
The GNU readline library is used to provide command line history and editing if it was built in to amrecover . The purpose of browsing the database is to build up a restore list of files to be extracted from the backup system. File listing commands return information only on files from backups for this day, for the day before with the next lower dump level, and so on, until the most recent level 0 backup on or before the specified date is encountered. Only the most recent version of a file will be presented. It can only be set after the host is set with sethost .