On Friday 07 October 2005 18:15, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Friday 07 October 2005 14:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Hi Listserve, >>I have my tapes defined as VTAPES. I have taken a full and 2 >> incremental backups. I now want to restore from those backups. My >> amrecover dies with the following messages: >> . >> . >> . >>Extracting files using tape drive file:/amandatape/daily on host >>lnxdev.ncci.com. >>Load tape dump600 now >>Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? Y >>EOF, check amidxtaped.<timestamp>.debug file on lnxdev.ncci.com. >>amrecover: short block 0 bytes >>UNKNOWN file >>amrecover: Can't read file header >>extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 >>Continue [?/Y/n/r]? Y >>amrecover> quit >>200 Good bye. >> >>Here is the file listing of slot6 where dump600 resides : >> >> # cd slot6 >>***1014*** [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/amandatape/daily/slot6] *** uid=0 *** >> # ls -la >>total 408968 >>drwxr-xr-x 2 amanda disk 4096 Oct 5 13:11 . >>drwxr-xr-x 8 amanda disk 4096 Oct 7 13:36 .. >>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 10 Oct 5 13:10 >> 00000-dump600 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 Oct 5 13:10 >> 00000.dump600 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 14 Oct 5 >> 13:11 >>00001-lnxdev.ncci.com._caplan_unixdata_accdata.0 >>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 418283520 Oct 5 13:11 >>00001.lnxdev.ncci.com._caplan_unixdata_accdata.0 >>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 10 Oct 5 13:11 00002-TAPEEND >>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 Oct 5 13:11 00002.TAPEEND >>lrwxrwxrwx 1 amanda disk 23 Oct 5 13:10 slot1 -> >>/amandatape/daily/slot1 >>***1015*** [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/amandatape/daily/slot6] *** uid=0 *** > >Yes, but what does the /amandatape/data link point to? >This is how the amanda utils will address it.
Darn, my brain was on vacation, that should have been /amandatape/daily/data Sorry about the confusion. >>Any idea how to retireve files from >>00001.lnxdev.ncci.com._caplan_unixdata_accdata.0 > >The individual files in the slot6 directory can be unpacked with the >instructions you'll get from this command issued after cd'ing to a >scratch directory that has enough space to receive it: > >dd >if=/amandatapes/daily/slot6/0001.lnxdev.mnnc.com_caplan_unixdata_assdata >.0 > >All on one line of course. :) The file is a normal tarball, possibly >compressed with gzip, with a 32k long amanda header at the >front of the file. > >>TIA >> >>Bernie Wu >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >>The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for >>the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. This >>message may be an attorney-client communication and/or work product and >>as such is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this message >>is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it >>to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have >>received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, >>distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you >>have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately >>by e-mail, and delete the original message. -- 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.
