Hmmm, that's strange, i can't think of anything but deletion that makes tar think the files had been deleted..... (it's tar which handles all the restores/deletions, not amanda. amanda only plans when to do which level and then collects the images and indicees and stores/manages them.)
But wait a minute, you say these files live on a samba based backup. For me this say's they are stored on a WIN-xx box. Correct? And where to did you restore these files? to the local linux box or to the original place? If to the linux-box, it could be possible your versions of smbclient and tar disagree in the handling of incremental backups, and tar simply missinterprets the last incremental generated by smbclient. This is a wild guess, but i've seen many strange things happen when WIN-xx has been involved. My first try would be to upgrade samba to the latest version from www.samba.org and see if the same happens again with a new set of backups of the same data. Second what version of tar do you use? ( tar --version should tell it to you) Recomended versions are 1.12 with patches from amanda-page or the latest version from alpha.gnu.org. The 1.13-verions comming with most linux-distros are buggy and partialy dangerous for your data. Christoph Marc N. Cannava wrote: > Christoph Scheeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hi, >>could it be the level 1 dump on Homenet005 was taken after the files >>were deleted? if so this is correct behavior. >> > > The files weren't deleted, they've just been sitting on my hard drive > for months, being backed up.. > > I'd expect this behavior if I deleted the files but *certainly* not if > the files are still on my hard drive, untouched. > > BTW, this seems to only happen on the samba-based backup; if I do a > restore of any of the local Linux partitions, or even the remote linux > partitions, the restore goes normally. > > Something is happening with Samba and I don't know why it would make any > difference.. The restore of the Linux partitions looks identical in the > logfiles, yet Tar deletes the directory/files upon restoring the > incremental when doing the Samba'd backup. > > I'm at my wit's end here -- does this give any clues? > > \marc > > >
