amrestore + tar not working.
Hi. I just want to extract * from a tar'ed tape archive to '.' (current directory on the backup server). I've done it before and it worked OK. Maybe I wrote something down wrong from before. /usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 servername pathname | tar xvf - All I get for any server/filesystem is: tar: /whatever/whatever: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: /whatever/whatever2: Cannot open: No such file or directory . . tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Am I doing something wrong? wab
RE: amrestore + tar not working.
Hi Wayne, I'm new to this group but in my experience you need to specify the directory name to extract for tar So if you want everything relative to server pathname you would specify /usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 servername pathname | tar xvf - ./ or if you know the directory name /usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 servername pathname | tar xvf - ./foo This will extract files into your current working directory you can test it with /usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 servername pathname | tar tvf - ./foo HTH! Does anyone know how to get around [parse of reply message failed] when backing up a solaris 2.6 client to amanda server? Any help would be appreciated more details of setup if needed but I'm heading away for the evening so will get back tommorrow. regards, Stephen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Byarlay, Wayne A. Sent: 09 October 2003 16:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: amrestore + tar not working. Hi. I just want to extract * from a tar'ed tape archive to '.' (current directory on the backup server). I've done it before and it worked OK. Maybe I wrote something down wrong from before. /usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 servername pathname | tar xvf - All I get for any server/filesystem is: tar: /whatever/whatever: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: /whatever/whatever2: Cannot open: No such file or directory . . tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Am I doing something wrong? wab application/ms-tnef
RE: amrestore + tar not working.
Just an observation: 1. Tar will happily extract the entire contents of the archive if you don't specify files or sets of files to extract. So: tar xvf - says extract all files from archive that is in standard input. 2. Check to see if your user ID has permission to extract the files into the current directory. If you are running the tar as the 'amanda' user ID, you may not be able to write the extracted files into the current directory. If the parent directories could not be created, the messages you are seeing are what could be expected in that case. Don Donald L. (Don) Ritchey E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Yeates, Stephen [Heanet] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:40 AM To: 'Byarlay, Wayne A.'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: amrestore + tar not working. Hi Wayne, I'm new to this group but in my experience you need to specify the directory name to extract for tar So if you want everything relative to server pathname you would specify /usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 servername pathname | tar xvf - ./ or if you know the directory name /usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 servername pathname | tar xvf - ./foo This will extract files into your current working directory you can test it with /usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 servername pathname | tar tvf - ./foo HTH! Does anyone know how to get around [parse of reply message failed] when backing up a solaris 2.6 client to amanda server? Any help would be appreciated more details of setup if needed but I'm heading away for the evening so will get back tommorrow. regards, Stephen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Byarlay, Wayne A. Sent: 09 October 2003 16:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: amrestore + tar not working. Hi. I just want to extract * from a tar'ed tape archive to '.' (current directory on the backup server). I've done it before and it worked OK. Maybe I wrote something down wrong from before. /usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 servername pathname | tar xvf - All I get for any server/filesystem is: tar: /whatever/whatever: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: /whatever/whatever2: Cannot open: No such file or directory . . tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Am I doing something wrong? wab This e-mail and any of its attachments may contain Exelon Corporation proprietary information, which is privileged, confidential, or subject to copyright belonging to the Exelon Corporation family of Companies. This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, or action taken in relation to the contents of and attachments to this e-mail is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout. Thank You.
RE: amrestore + tar not working.
Hmm. Well, I looked closer (by piping through more) at the output more; and there's some permission denied's that I'm not especially too worried about. Also, the /dev was not ignored when backing up root on the client; so naturally I expect Cannot mknod; operation not permitted is probably because it can't copy /dev/floppy, for instance, to an amanda archive! For the most part, I've got this stuff figured out... thanks all for your help! I'm sure I'll be back with more newbie-type questions, probably pertaining to client configuration. wab. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: amrestore + tar not working. What does the full output stream look like? Tar issues that error message when it fails at part of the extract, but not fatally. For example, a directory might already exist with read-only permissions and tar cannot overwrite it, but everything else in the extract goes OK. Look at the complete stream and see if you can find out the original complaint from tar. Don Donald L. (Don) Ritchey E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Byarlay, Wayne A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: amrestore + tar not working. AHA! It was a permissions thing, as far as the actual extraction. However, it appears as though I'm not out of the woods yet... the untarring process only get yea far before bombing out with the 2nd error: tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Maybe I need a different tar? or some large-archive specification? I know I've successfully restored much larger archives... but it's been a while. Thanks for your help!! wab -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: amrestore + tar not working. Just an observation: 1. Tar will happily extract the entire contents of the archive if you don't specify files or sets of files to extract. So: tar xvf - says extract all files from archive that is in standard input. 2. Check to see if your user ID has permission to extract the files into the current directory. If you are running the tar as the 'amanda' user ID, you may not be able to write the extracted files into the current directory. If the parent directories could not be created, the messages you are seeing are what could be expected in that case. Don Donald L. (Don) Ritchey E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Yeates, Stephen [Heanet] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:40 AM To: 'Byarlay, Wayne A.'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: amrestore + tar not working. Hi Wayne, I'm new to this group but in my experience you need to specify the directory name to extract for tar So if you want everything relative to server pathname you would specify /usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 servername pathname | tar xvf - ./ or if you know the directory name /usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 servername pathname | tar xvf - ./foo This will extract files into your current working directory you can test it with /usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 servername pathname | tar tvf - ./foo HTH! Does anyone know how to get around [parse of reply message failed] when backing up a solaris 2.6 client to amanda server? Any help would be appreciated more details of setup if needed but I'm heading away for the evening so will get back tommorrow. regards, Stephen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Byarlay, Wayne A. Sent: 09 October 2003 16:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: amrestore + tar not working. Hi. I just want to extract * from a tar'ed tape archive to '.' (current directory on the backup server). I've done it before and it worked OK. Maybe I wrote something down wrong from before. /usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 servername pathname | tar xvf - All I get for any server/filesystem is: tar: /whatever/whatever: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: /whatever/whatever2: Cannot open: No such file or directory . . tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Am I doing something wrong? wab This e-mail and any of its attachments may contain Exelon Corporation proprietary information, which is privileged, confidential, or subject to copyright belonging to the Exelon Corporation family of Companies. This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, or action taken in relation to the contents of and attachments to this e-mail is strictly prohibited and may
