On Thursday 29 September 2005 22:21, Steve H wrote: >I checked the amanda.conf file, and yes, I am indexing. > >Thanks, >Steve
I'll be up for a little bit yet. Does the index file exist? > >--- Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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: <[email protected]> >> >> 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. > >__________________________________ >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.
