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.\" Title: amarchiver
.\" Author: Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com>
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-.\" Date: 10/18/2010
+.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.76.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
+.\" Date: 02/21/2012
.\" Manual: System Administration Commands
-.\" Source: Amanda 3.2.0
+.\" Source: Amanda 3.3.1
.\" Language: English
.\"
-.TH "AMARCHIVER" "8" "10/18/2010" "Amanda 3\&.2\&.0" "System Administration Commands"
+.TH "AMARCHIVER" "8" "02/21/2012" "Amanda 3\&.3\&.1" "System Administration Commands"
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+.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
\fBAmarchiver\fR
-manipulates amanda archive file\&. On creation, amarchiver doesn\'t recurse into directories\&. If a filename specifies a directory, it will be ignored\&. If it specifies a character device, amarchiver reads the device and archives the data\&. If a filename specifies a named pipe, amarchiver reads the named pipe and archives the data\&.
+manipulates amanda archive file\&. On creation, amarchiver doesn\*(Aqt recurse into directories\&. If a filename specifies a directory, it will be ignored\&. If it specifies a character device, amarchiver reads the device and archives the data\&. If a filename specifies a named pipe, amarchiver reads the named pipe and archives the data\&.
.PP
Note that this tool is more limited than the Amanda archive library, and may not be appropriate for some archive files \-\- particularly those which use non\-strings in their filenames\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
\fB\-\-extract\fR
.RS 4
-Extract an amanda archive\&. If filenames are supplied, only those files are extracted\&. Files are created in the current directory, suffixed with a dot (\'\&.\') and the attribute ID\&.
+Extract an amanda archive\&. If filenames are supplied, only those files are extracted\&. Files are created in the current directory, suffixed with a dot (\*(Aq\&.\*(Aq) and the attribute ID\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-verbose\fR