Oh and I should add, yes we do have backups for this server, and we can restore to the server from the Avamar console.

Sorry if I was unclear the error that we're getting is that there is no matching backup selected; however, at least in the documentation there doesn't seem a way to list backups to restore from. I'm just a bit confused on the process.

The --path flag (or its alias --acnt) is required to run a restore. You have to tell the Avamar server which client account you want to restore from. This is normally something like:

--path=/clients/hostname.example.com

Off the top of my head I see that there is only one dash in the --before flag where there should be two.

Other than that, could you please clarify the issue? There's no error message or description of the problem included in your post. I think you may have forgotten to finish your thought.

at least in the documentation there doesn't seem a way to list backups to restore from

There is a --backups flag for avtar that will give you a list of backups.

Is there a link to a better reference you know of? This is what the AvClients.pdf shows and it's not very clear at all.

Thanks you so much for your time,

Steven

I actually started writing something up a few weeks ago because these avtar command line questions keep coming up but I got pulled away to work on other things. I finished writing it up and it's now posted on my blog:

https://community.emc.com/blogs/stickybytes/2013/11/26/information-gathering-with-avtar

It doesn't cover the --before or --after flags but I think those are fairly straightforward. Please let me know if you think it would be helpful for me to add some info about these flags as well and I can edit the entry.

Always happy to help!

Thank you for the article, it's much appreciated.