Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-05-02 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:08:08PM +0100, gj enlightened us: > I finally have some more clarifying(?) details of my problem(s) that some of > you > were asking for! > > The amrecover error I am writing about in this email is slightly different > from > the problem in my original post, but perhap

Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-05-02 Thread gj
hings may be going wrong. Is this related to the 1.13.93 gnutar version I have? Sorry for the persistent questions! Thanks for the help! g - Forwarded message from gj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:23:59 +0100 From: gj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: gj &

Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-04-26 Thread gj
Sorry for the delay...I could not get access to the backup machine last week... > > [...] sometimes although I get a "finished" > > report on all DLEs using amcheck, the automatically mailed report would > still > > indicate errors of backing up some of the disk entries. > > Are you by any chance

Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-04-18 Thread Alexander Jolk
gj wrote: > [...] sometimes although I get a "finished" > report on all DLEs using amcheck, the automatically mailed report would still > indicate errors of backing up some of the disk entries. Are you by any chance running into data timeout issues? Citing the relevant lines for a failed DLE from

Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-04-18 Thread Toomas Aas
gj wrote: If indexes are the listings you get when you "ls" in "amrecover", then the indexes seem to stop at certain subdirectories. That is, when I "ls" in the subdirectory (listed in the index) where the file to be recovered is, I only get a "." (no files listed even though the original machine h

Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-04-17 Thread gj
> How about the indexes for the questionable DLE's. > Do they show the files you expect were in fact backed up? > The indexes should show everything on the tape. If indexes are the listings you get when you "ls" in "amrecover", then the indexes seem to stop at certain subdirectories. That is, whe

Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-04-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:57:13PM +0100, gj wrote: > > > Maybe the tar or dump process that is doing the actual recovery simply > > hasn't finished yet. It doesn't stop after having recovered the file you > > requested, it goes through the entire backup image in any case. With big > > backup imag

Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-04-17 Thread gj
> Maybe the tar or dump process that is doing the actual recovery simply > hasn't finished yet. It doesn't stop after having recovered the file you > requested, it goes through the entire backup image in any case. With big > backup images this may take some time. Yes, I was hoping that was the ca

Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-04-15 Thread Toomas Aas
gj wrote: In case this may be related, sometimes when I am successful in extracting/recovering a file, amrecover stalls. When I wait awhile, I see in a different terminal that the file has been recovered, but I don't get the "amrecover>" prompt back and I need to ^C to quit. Maybe the tar or dump p

q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-04-14 Thread gj
Hi, I'm testing out my backup system and randomly selecting files from different hosts to recover (with amrecover). Even though I would not have an error message associated with the DLE I'm trying to recover files from, I've found that amrecover reports that there are no files in the folder in whi