The flag you're looking for is --target. For example, to restore the data to the /tmp directory:

avtar --extract --id=SECRET --password=SECRET --path=/RedHat/mylinuxserver.secret.com --target=/tmp /home/donaldduck/my_data

Or to restore to the current working directory:

avtar --extract --id=SECRET --password=SECRET --path=/RedHat/mylinuxserver.secret.com --target=. /home/donaldduck/my_data

perfect!! thank you:

where is there information on all the avtar command had to offer (PDF)?

I am wondering about the --validate or --showlog  .. not sure what they do

Thank you!!!!

I'm not sure there's a customer-facing document that covers all the avtar options.

The --validate flag essentially runs a restore of the data to /dev/null. This can serve as a test of the integrity of the backup on the server (though it only tests that the backup is consistent, not that it is correct -- if the data was corrupted on the client when we backed it up, Avamar has no way to detect this).

The --showlog flag will print out the avtar log for a specified backup (or the most recent backup if no backup is specified) up to the point where the backup was sealed on the server. This is useful if the client logs for a backup have rolled off the client itself (we purge backup logs periodically) but the backup is still on the server.

so is it true that you CANNOT restore data from a client from another system other than the client?

EG:

from cleintA do a restore of data from clientB but restore it to clientA.

Yes you can do this, here’s an example syntax restoring from the win2008 client and this avtar was issued from a Linux client

Include the source clients account info. in your syntax.

avtar -x --acnt=/ATO/win2008r2-ent.brsvlab.local --hfsaddr=ave-03 --encrypt=ssl:AES128-SHA --id=***** --password=***** --sequence=287 --quiet

Note that you have to be on the client where the files should be restored, not the client that created the backup you want to restore.

Forgot to mention, the hfsaddr needs to contain the name of your Avamar server.

From: Kirkpatrick, Adam

Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 4:37 PM

To: 'jive-1497546335-kse-2-glxl@emc-ecn.hosted.jivesoftware.com'

Subject: RE: - command line restore using avtar command

Your source client owning the BU you want to restore.

So if you are on Client-A and you want to restore Client-B’s BU to Client-A, then Client-B would be the source client in this case

Your source client owning the BU you want to restore.

So if you are on Client-A and you want to restore Client-B’s BU to Client-A, then Client-B would be the source client in this case