On Thursday 29 September 2005 21:26, Steve H wrote: >I am on a Red Hat 9 box. Pervious tar verion was 1.13, just upgraded to > 1.15 and it didn't fix the issue. What do you mean by indexing DLE? > >Thanks, >Steve > I think he was referring to the DLE (DiskList Entry) pointing to a dumptype that had a line saying "index yes".
You can set this once in the global section of your amanda.conf as long as the final dumptype chosen does an "include global" >--- Vera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I do not remember exactly what was a reason for this error, but I saw >> it before :-) >> >> 1. Are you indexing this DLE? >> 2. What OS are you using? FC3 distributive had tar 1.14 with a bug - > >> check the amrecover log file and if error happens at the "tar" point, >> then simple upgrade your tar RPM or reinstall it from sources >> >> ----- 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 >> > >> > >> > >> > __________________________________ >> > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 >> > http://mail.yahoo.com > >__________________________________ >Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 >http://mail.yahoo.com -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.