On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:08:23PM -0600, Vera wrote: > I do not remember exactly what was a reason for this error, but I saw it > before :-) >
I'm going to sound just like Vera :( > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <amanda-users@amanda.org> > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:42 PM > Subject: Using amrecover - strange happenings > > > >Guys, > > > > I would appreciate some help with this one, as it's freaking me out. I > >have > >been getting backups for a while now of a particular host and file system. > >I > >have tested the recovery before and it worked great. > > This time, I put the necessary tape in, and run amrecover and it will > >only > >restore the directories. The files will not restore, and I keep getting > >the > >error: > > > >./laptopBackups/Documents and Settings/My Documents/ > >tar: Unexpected EOF in archive > >tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > >extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 2 > >Continue [?/Y/n]? > > > >so I started looking at the actual index for that and their are no files > >listed > >in the index, only directories. > > > >I started checking the dates, and it seems like the directories have been > >backed up, and they all have the same date of backup, but the actual > >documents > >have a different date. It's like they were backed up once, but never got > >backed up again. > > > >Does this have to do with the tape rotation? what am I missing? I have > >the > >tape that lists the documents, and it even lists them when I browse the > >tape > >with amrecover, but I can't extract them, I get the error above. > > > >Please help, > >Steve I recall having a similar problem a couple of years ago. It was one of two scenarios (I think). Either I was trying a different version of tar or I was trying the cygwin version of amanda. It might have been both, because I recall one thing I had to do to get the cygwin version working was download and compile 1.13.25 gnutar under cygwin. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)