[Amanda-users] how to use amrestore

2009-02-27 Thread ay4you
Hi Can anyone tell me how to use amrestore i have done amrestore tapefile host now i have a big file which i cant open how do i extract the files there +-- |This was sent by mahmoudh...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPA

Re: [Amanda-users] how to use amrestore

2009-02-27 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
ay4you schrieb: Can anyone tell me how to use amrestore i have done amrestore tapefile host now i have a big file which i cant open how do i extract the files there Why you want to use amrestore and not amrecover? # man amrecover Regards Marc -- Marc Muehlfeld (Leitung IT) Zentrum fuer H

2.6.1 leaving files on the dumpdisk

2009-02-27 Thread stan
I am in the process of migrating to 2.6.1, and the test client on OpeenBSD is not working correctly at the moment. I am getting dumps that consist of only the header, and no valid data. I am aware of the problem, and it is on the list of things that will get fixed. However, this is triggering a se

Re: 2.6.1 leaving files on the dumpdisk

2009-02-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM, stan wrote: > -rw--- 1 amanda amanda 32788 2009-02-24 22:42 pbuild3.wd0f.0 > > Shouldn't the nightly backup be deleting these files, and the parent > directory? I am fairly certain that in the past, a failed backup did not > result in an orphan directory on th

Re: amanda 2.6.1 amrestore issue

2009-02-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
I'm sorry -- I somehow filed this away withot answering. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Brian Cuttler wrote: > read(4, 0x080887A0, 32768)                      Err#5 EIO This is the read error. As you can see, it doesn't give much detail -- just EIO. The subsequent > ioctl(4, (('m'<<8)|1), 0

[Amanda-users] how to use amrestore

2009-02-27 Thread ay4you
i want to restore because the server was rebuilt and amrecover is not reading the old backups i took only the new ones i havnt had any luck with amrecover so i want to try amrestore +-- |This was sent by mahmoudh...@gmail.com v

Re: [Amanda-users] how to use amrestore

2009-02-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Why you can't open the file? Jean-Louis ay4you wrote: Hi Can anyone tell me how to use amrestore i have done amrestore tapefile host now i have a big file which i cant open how do i extract the files there +-- |This was sent

Re: amanda 2.6.1 amrestore issue

2009-02-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:03:21PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > I'm sorry -- I somehow filed this away withot answering. > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > read(4, 0x080887A0, 32768) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Err#5 EIO > ... > Note that the actions Amanda is performin

Re: 2.6.1 leaving files on the dumpdisk

2009-02-27 Thread stan
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:04:58AM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM, stan wrote: > > -rw--- 1 amanda amanda 32788 2009-02-24 22:42 pbuild3.wd0f.0 > > > > Shouldn't the nightly backup be deleting these files, and the parent > > directory? I am fairly certain t

Re: 2.6.1 leaving files on the dumpdisk

2009-02-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:57 PM, stan wrote: > The point I am making is, to the best of myy knowledge, in the past, a > failed backup set got written to the tape, and then deleted from the > dumpdisk. Once it's on the tape, leaving it on the dumpdisk, is a problem, > in that you will eventually lo

Re: 2.6.1 leaving files on the dumpdisk

2009-02-27 Thread stan
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 03:33:53PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:57 PM, stan wrote: > > The point I am making is, to the best of myy knowledge, in the past, a > > failed backup set got written to the tape, and then deleted from the > > dumpdisk. Once it's on the tape