On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:07:02PM +0200, Michael Weiser wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:22:10AM +0200, Michael Weiser wrote: > > > But I actually want to restore the archives not individual files. Can I > > do that with amrecover? > > > I found that I can do something like this though: > > > amrestore -p diskdir/slot30/00002.machine._.3 | \ > > ssh machine "cat - >~/restore/machine._.2.tar" > > > I just wonder if it's the right way to do it[tm]. > > Ahem, sorry if I phrased that ambiguously. It was actually ment as a > question. > > Does anybody know if the above is the right way to restore complete > archives from virtual tapes?
Don't have a real solid answer, fortunately I've not had to do that. Just a couple of thoughts. Simple thing, you have a mismatch in source and destination names, level .3 -> level .2.tar The amrestore command is getting the file in uncompressed format even if it was compressed. If you want to transfer the compressed form I think you could add the -r option. Extraction and transfer could be done separately if you have space and don't want to play with pipes/cat/ssh. You are certain it is a tar archive? Separate extraction of the header can be done to see what amanda says it used. Using amrecover might be possible. I think when you specify to extract a directory it extracts recursively anything under that directory. So adding "/" or "." to the extract list (I forget the semantics) might make recovery of the entire dump possible using amrecover. The final answer is, of course, whatever works :) -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
