Thanks Paul!!! That worked a treat.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 07 June 2006 14:40
> To: John Clement
> Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org
> Subject: Re: Restoring windows partition written using smbclient
>
> On 2006-06-07 15:23, John Clement wrote:
> > I'm trying to restore the contents of
> >
> > AMANDA: FILE 20060601 orinoco.deanst.rroom.net
> > //tlswindev1.deanst.rroom.net/e$ lev 0 comp .gz program
> > /usr/bin/smbclient
> >
> > However I don't know how to get this off the tape into a
> usable format.
>
> The first 32K block of the file on tape contains the instructions.
>
> Have you read:
>
> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Restoring_files
>
> Especially the secion about restoring with "amrestore".
> The windows tar is compatible with gnutar, so to restore on
> the server itself, just use gnutar.
>
>
>
>
> > It was generated from the DLE
> >
> > orinoco.deanst.rroom.net //tlswindev1.deanst.rroom.net/e$
> > comp-root-tar-win
> >
> > And from amanda.conf
> >
> > define dumptype comp-root-tar-win {
> > root-tar
> > comment "Root partitions with compression"
> > compress client fast
> > index
> > #exclude list "/var/lib/amanda/exclusions.txt"
> > }
> >
> > I need to restore it to the amanda server as I'm still trying to
> > reinstall 'tlswindev1' after its only disk (yes, I know, when its
> > replaced I'll be insisting on RAID) died last night, and I can't
> > afford the network traffic (the dump to tape should be about 30GB).
>
> Something like this should work (untested):
>
> # cd /space/tmp # somewhere with enough free diskspace
> # mt -t /dev/st0 rewind # fill in your tape device
> # amrestore -p /dev/nst0 orinoco.deanst.rroom.net
> '//tlswindev1.deanst.rroom.net/e\$' | gtar --numeric-owner -xpvf -
>
>
>
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