Hi, Ok, so I have finally got Amanda to write a partition to tape. Now I want to grab a file off of the tape.
I'm using Amanda-2.4.2p2 on FreeBSD. After a successful amcheck and amdump, I run # mt rewind # mt fsf 001 to position the tape at the beginning of where I wrote daily001. I'm following the instructions in Unix Backup & Recovery here - Chapter 4 page 183. I have backed up /usr on the client machine, and in /usr I have a file called usr.dump that I would like to recover. I am trying to do this with the following command: # dd if=/dev/nrsa0 bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/local/bin/gtar -xf usr.dump ... but I get: /usr/local/bin/gtar: usr.dump: Cannot open: (null) /usr/local/bin/gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now What am I doing wrong here? Am I using the gtar command incorrectly? I read through the tar manpage trying to find my mistake, but can't seem to see what I'm doing wrong. Any advice appreciated, Shawn