Greetings
I am having a problem with amrestore with backups made using gnutar.
I hope this is not in some doc I have missed or in the list archives, I
have spent a lot of time looking.
Lets say the server has the following hhd config:
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8 251M 110M 127M 47% /
/dev/sda1 53M 3.8M 46M 8% /boot
/dev/sda6 3.1G 568M 2.4G 19% /home
/dev/sda5 3.1G 1.7G 1.2G 57% /usr
/dev/sda7 251M 123M 115M 52% /var
So I have a entry in disklist for the following (for the host)
client/root-tar
client/boot user-tar
client/home user-tar
client/usr user-tar
client/var user-tar
Note: thay all use gtar (although confusing, the archives seem
to indicate gnutar is a better option than dump with 2.4.x kernals)
Also since amanda uses the --one-file-system option with gnutar
I have one entry per partition.
Now if amanda backs up more that one partition on the tape in one run, I
could have
/boot
/
/home
say, on one tape, and in this order.
Now to restore I do the following on the client
ssh amandaserver "amrestore -p /dev/nst0 host" >> host.tar
The first entry in the achive is extracted (/boot) and amrestore stops.
Now, if I were to say use the following in an attempt to get the / archive:
ssh amandaserver "amrestore -p /dev/nst0 host /" >> host.tar
Once again /boot is extracted and amrestore stops once done.
So then, without having to extract the entire archive without amrestore,
how can I get the / partition from the tape as /boot is found first, matches
the diskname (at least in terms of regular expressions), extracts and stops?
Config is:
amanda 2.4.2p2
tar 1.13.19 (client) and tar 1.13.25 (server)
(BTW, will change all to 1.13.25 as I am still missing files with
1.13.19, ie on this
host 823megs off 1.7gigs in usr was backed up :-( , clients with 1.13.25
seem to be fine)
Regards
Warren
