On Monday 01 May 2017 19:27:04 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > Jean-Louis — do you know if one can use the newer versions of tar to > recover stuff that was backed up using these “bad” versions of tar? > Or does the recording version have to be newer too? > > (I.e. maybe Gene could still test using his existing backups. And > this would mean that older backups aren’t worthless. )
I suspect they are junk Deb. A 2 week old level0 of /home is 1157 megs. The du -h report says 99 gigs. No compressor I know about is _that_ good. Its also the reason that when I experimentally descended one level at a time, I didn't get anything after that one level down, in either /etc/apache2, or in /var/www, adding html didn't get any html content even with the html/* as the add. So the meat and potatoes of the real data is not there. Give me a few days and I'd say that a df of amandatapes, a 1 terabyte drive, will be full. Its 74% right now. I'll go raise the vtape size 15Gb right now, and add a day to the cycle. And watch the df report. I've been considering ordering up a newer, bigger disk, perhaps this will make me drop the card. Give me a few days to sort this, but I suspect I'll be filing a heated buig report with debian over this. > > Deb Baddorf > > > On May 1, 2017, at 6:02 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > > wrote: > > > > On Monday 01 May 2017 16:37:11 Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > >> Gene, > >> > >> Which version of tar are you using? > > > > 1.27.1 > > > >> Read the thread at > >> https://www.mail-archive.com/amanda-users@amanda.org/msg48929.html > >> > >> Jean-Louis > > > > Says 1.29 fixes this. > > > > I'll have to build it from the tarball, 1.27.1 is the newest in the > > wheezy repo's. > > > > Done, and amcheck seems happy, now we'll see if it runs ok tonight. > > > > Thanks Jean-Louis. > > > >> On 30/04/17 10:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Greetings all; > >>> > >>> The last time I used amrecover I had to make a tempdir on the same > >>> disk as the stuff I wanted to recover was on. thats ok because I > >>> figure I can always copy it back to where it goes. > >>> > >>> The last time I ran it, I added a directory and it recovered > >>> everything under that directory. > >>> > >>> Tonight I add a directory, have it do the extract, and it makes an > >>> empty directory in the designated scratch area. huh? wth? > >>> > >>> I want everything in that directory, as it existed on a setdate of > >>> 2017-04-15, what am I doing wrong? > >>> > >>> Thank folks. > >>> > >>> In the meantime I've recovered what I wanted, but it made zero > >>> difference, my web site is off the air, claiming the server is > >>> alive and well, but no content has been added. But the whole web > >>> sites files are all there! > >>> > >>> I'm lost. > >>> > >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett > >> > >> This message is the property of CARBONITE, INC. and may contain > >> confidential or privileged information. If this message has been > >> delivered to you by mistake, then do not copy or deliver this > >> message to anyone. Instead, destroy it and notify me by reply > >> e-mail > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
