On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Florian Lengyel <florian.leng...@gmail.com> wrote: > 3. They didn't know--or bother to read--that to recover the files, you list > the first couple of lines (they configured a custom compression with bzip2): > AMANDA: SPLIT_FILE 20100222 guass.engr.ccny.cuny.edu /home1/skgottipati > part 8/ > 11 lev 0 comp cust program /bin/tar client_custom_compress /bin/bzip2 > To restore, position tape at start of file and run: > dd if=<tape> bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/bzip2 -d | /bin/tar -xpGf - > 4. Concatenating split files so that they could be unzipped and extracted > with tar seems to present a breathtaking challenge. We'll see how far they > get. (I will leave the list out of this, of course.) > Again, my apologies for distracting the list with this. I did learn about > VTapes--many thanks.
Wait, why do they need to do restores by hand? Are they unable to use amrecover? Amfetchdump? Even amrestore? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
