On Wednesday 26 June 2019 17:54:12 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 03:45:15 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I tried to run amrecover on picnc, but was NAK'd at every step. > > This even though I have added the root line to > > /var/backups/.amandahosts. > > (Like so many aspects of Amanda, it's very likely possible to get > amrecover working on picnc -- but that's a whole separate discussion, > and since you have already retrieved the files you needed, I don't > know how worthwhile it is to go down that road at this point....) > > > So I located the last full which was on the 16th, and using the > > usual dd if=/path/to/file._.0 bs=32k skip-1 | gzip -d | tar x - > > command, unpacked it to some spare space on the /amandatapes drive, > > then copied what I needed from that tree to > > /home/gene/linuxcnc/transfer-dir, > > The goal of my earlier message was just to point out that running > amrecover into a temporary working directory on the server is a middle > ground. With that approach, you let Amanda (via "amrecover") manage > all the inventory-of-dumps tracking and unpacking of the files > (including the possibility of limiting the unpacking to only the > particular subdirectories you care about)... but without the need to > worry about setting anything up on the client side. > > (Obviously since you are skipping the client side setup you do still > need to copy the recovered files from the server over to the client, > but that process would be identical to what you just did above, just > starting with the directory tree created my amrecover instead of the > one created by "tar x".) > > But hey, if you don't mind building the dd/gzip/tar command pipeline > yourself, that certainly gets the job done too :) > > Nathan Just one big horsefly sized bug in following the directions in that files header. The last argument to tar was a 4 char string I've never seen before, and I watched it grind away at 100% of a random core for about an hour before I gave it a ctrl-c. Quit instantly and did no damage, so I up-arrowed and edited that string to just an x >picnic-slash.
Since it was a good sized file, that also took a while, but gave me a filesystem I could walk thru to what I needed, and copy it out. And once I had the output, the rest was think, faster. But while I did get it, I feel like I should have been able to do it with amrecover. And I'm less than pleased. That _is what amrecover is for_ is it not? Thanks Nathan. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >------ Nathan Stratton Treadway - natha...@ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic > region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - > http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: > http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key > fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239 Copyright 2019 by Maurice E. Heskett 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
