Hello, I recently had to recover some files 'accidentally' deleted by a user. The client is 2.4.2p2 on a RedHat 7.0. The server is also 2.4.2p2 on a Tru64 alpha. The partition is backed up with dump and compressed on the client with gzip.
The problem is this : when I ran amrecover as root on the client, at the top of the partition, I was able to cd into the right directory, add the vanished files to the recovery list and then ask to extract. I put the right tape into the drive and launched the recovery. After some times (some hours really), nothing had happened, so I looked on the server, and gzip was running (on the server !) using about 0.5% of the CPU. amidxtaped was running, and the tape drive was occasionally busy. The partition is about 3 GB, so with gzip so timid, I could wait some more days ... Finally, I ran amrestore on the server, piped to restore -i, and the restore took about 5 minutes. I then transferred the files on the client. But isn't there a way to have amrecover perform faster? Is client- side compression the issue? Thanks for any hint Raoul -- Dr Raoul De Guchteneere Département de Physique Université catholique de Louvain
