amrecover not recovering directories

2006-01-19 Thread Shai Ayal
Hi all, I have a strange problem with amrecover. I am trying to recover directories from a level 0 backup which is on a single vtape. Say the directory is /dir1 and in it I have 3 files: file1,file2,file3 if I use amrecover lcd /tmp/bu2 amrecover cd / / amrecover ls 2006-01-11 . 2006-01-11

Re: Extracting from a gnutar image

2006-01-19 Thread Paul Bijnens
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I have to restore the root partition of the amanda server, so there is quite some stuff to do by hand. I can extract the gnutar image from the tape with amrestore, now how can I untar the image file I get? I have a file like amanda._var.20060117.1 what can I do with

Re: Problems with chg-scsi

2006-01-19 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Ian Turner schrieb: Hello, Is anyone out there using chg-scsi instead of chg-mtx or chg-zd-mtx? If so, can you tell me why? I've been testing it quite a bit, but there seem to be a large number of problems -- the code is ridden with bad device references, fixed buffer overflows, and the

RE: Problems with chg-scsi

2006-01-19 Thread Scott R. Burns
NetBSD/i386 is my platform (think of it as FreeBSD only better :-)). /dev/rst0 is the raw device, the n prefix version is the no-rewind version. I am sure the author can explain the changerident field more. I think is kind of like a quirk table where it maps the expected result from each scsi

Re: Problems with chg-scsi

2006-01-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:58:11AM -0500, Scott R. Burns wrote: NetBSD/i386 is my platform (think of it as FreeBSD only better :-)). Just an observation; nearly all who responded to Ian query saying they still use chg-scsi and who mentioned their OS, indicated it was one of the BSD variants. Is

RE: Problems with chg-scsi

2006-01-19 Thread Scott R. Burns
As with others this is just what I started with back then. I don't really remember what version of Amanda that was back then but somehow I went in that direction and have not had reason to look elsewhere. Scott... Scott Burns NETCON Technologies Inc. Voice: +1.519.652.0401 Fax: +1.519.652.9275

Release of amanda-2.5.0b2

2006-01-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.0b2. It is stable and we hope to release 2.5.0 soon. test it and report it if you find a bug in this release. It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org/ Here's a list of the changes for release 2.5.0b2 (from the