How do you recover an amanda dump file without amrestore? I had dd'd one to disk and tried to untar it but got the message "not a tar file". Once I ran it through amrestore I was able to untar it though.
George Kelbley said: > restoring w/o amrestore can be done with dd, gzip, tar, and so on, > way > messy compared to amrecover (or amrestore) but its possible. That's > one > of the plus's to amanda. > > Kurt Yoder wrote: >> >> Assuming you're running Linux, all you need is some form of Linux >> rescue disk. I've got a bunch of Debian installer cd's lying >> around >> and have used them for similar purposes before. Probably most >> Linux >> installer cd's can be used like this, and I'm quite certain >> something like Knoppix would include all the utilities anyone >> would >> need. Who knows, might even work to restore tapes made with >> non-Linux amanda servers. >> >> BTW, if restoring without an amanda server, doesn't one also need >> amrestore? The other day I tried restoring an amanda image, and >> had >> to run it through amrestore before I could untar it. >> >> Eric Siegerman said: >> > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:17:16PM -0400, Ean Kingston wrote: >> >> Also, with hardware compression, I know I can restore the tape >> >> without having >> >> to worry about finding the right libraries and programs to do >> the >> >> restore. >> > >> > True. But one can work around that by backing up / >> uncompressed, >> > and making sure it contains a (possibly statically linked) copy >> > of gzip. Hmmm, something to add to my to-do list :-( >> >> -- >> Kurt Yoder >> Sport & Health network administrator > > -- > George Kelbley System Support Group > Computer Science Department University of New Mexico > 505-277-6502 Fax: 505-277-6927 > -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator