On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:37:23PM -0500, Myron Kowalski enlightened us: > I've never had a problem restore files to solaris boxes; > however, I'm trying to restore a linux backup, which I've > never done. This is the message I got. > > amrestore: 79: restoring aimserver._dev_hda2.20051216.0 > Volume is not in dump format > amrestore: 80: reached end of information > > I see the tape has the image I want. I usually use this > command: > amrestore -p (drive) aimserver /dev/hda2 | ufsrestore ivf - > > Is the error telling me that linux has the compressed the > image a different way. This is the line from disklist > > aimserver /dev/hda2 linux-tar # /usr >
The image was backed up using tar, and you're trying to restore with ufsdump. That does not compute. Try: amrestore -p (drive) aimserver /dev/hda2 | tar xvf - or similar. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
