>I have recently used amrestore to get an entire level 0 partition/disk
>off of an amanda tape and onto disk on a Redhat Linux box. I'm trying to
>use restore to get files out of this large amrestore file. ...
What version of dump/restore? Only relatively recent ones are reportedly
worth the trouble of running.
>... when it goes to restore the files into the
>directories it just created, I receive a checksum error. My first
>thoughts is that I had a bad archive. I ran a test by doing a "restore
>tvf <amrestore_file>". ...
That's not much of a test. It does not read the entire image, only the
directory section which is at the beginning (and is not very large).
It shows you the directory structure (e.g. the files you want), but does
not actually get that far into the image to see the file data.
>... I tried a completely
>separate backup and had the exact same results, so unless I have 2 bad
>backups (possible but unlikely), there is something I need to change in
>order to get the files out of this backup file.
My guess is your dump/restore programs are broken. Time to either
upgrade and hope that fixes it or upgrade and then beg the dump/restore
folks for help.
>Mark Butscher
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
