On Thursday 29 September 2005 23:01, Steve H wrote: >Gene, > Yes, the index file does exist, and I have two good backups to > attempt to restore from. However, in checking the Index files, I > noticed that the actual files had a different date on them (august 5th) > while all the directories have august 11th. This is bothering me > because that shouldn't happen. Would Amanda backup only the > directories if the tape becomes full? Either way, I have the tape from > August 5th, and when I do a Setdate 2005-05-08, everything shows up in > the index file as it should. I just can't restore files from > it...directories work great...LOL. > >Any help is greatly apprecaited Gene, >Steve
Can you read the tape with dd & tar + gunzip according to the instructions in the first block of every file? I'm hitting the sack now, dunno who's still up, Steve. Jon's been known to be a night owl too. Right now I'm half disgusted, my less than a year old, only a 100 pack of cd's thru it, LiteOn dvd/cdr burner just went toes up. The cheaper they get, the cheaper they are... >--- Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. > >______________________________________________________ >Yahoo! for Good >Donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. >http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ -- 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.
