Re: Fwd: amrecover seems to work but just leaves empty directory

2015-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 December 2015 17:19:59 Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 05:02:46PM -0500, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > > It's kind of annoying that over a span of many years gnu tar seems > > to have recurrent bugs that cause trouble with Amanda. I'm sure I've > > done quite a few recoveri

Re: Fwd: amrecover seems to work but just leaves empty directory

2015-12-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 05:02:46PM -0500, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > > It's kind of annoying that over a span of many years gnu tar seems to have > recurrent bugs that cause trouble with Amanda. I'm sure I've done quite a > few recoveries on this system over the last year, and this is the first time

Re: Fwd: amrecover seems to work but just leaves empty directory

2015-12-23 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
That worked. Took a while, because it had to scan 140 DLEs on the tape before getting to the right one. Fortunately the LTO6 and the SuperMicro server are both quite fast. Recovered about 300G and then had to sift through it to get the directory and files the user wanted. (used http://kb.zmanda.

Re: amrecover seems to work but just leaves empty directory

2015-12-23 Thread Debra S Baddorf
OK …. If you looked at it before giving it the second tape, then I’ll agree with you. Drat! I hope I don’t run into that bug. Deb > On Dec 23, 2015, at 1:19 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > > I typically have multiple terminal windows open. While I was doing the > recover from one window, I w

Re: amrecover seems to work but just leaves empty directory

2015-12-23 Thread Chris Lewis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What version of tar are you using? What does: "tar --version" return? Mine returns 1.27.1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJWevo8AAoJENy2YTBCU1ml3GEH/0QwTtxjNQWrv6243U5ycjwd u1e6HuqEyUnFvKYWoF5FwT9WtYJ

Re: amrecover seems to work but just leaves empty directory

2015-12-23 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
I typically have multiple terminal windows open. While I was doing the recover from one window, I was following the process and the contents of the directory from other windows. After it had finished with the first tape (the full backup), the recovered directory was empty. Then I gave it the sec

Re: amrecover seems to work but just leaves empty directory

2015-12-23 Thread Debra S Baddorf
Since this seems to revolve around a restore that needs two tapes, what happens if you specify the two tapes SEPARATELY, does anyone know? mkdir /tmp/A mkdir /tmp/B cd /tmp/A amrecover> setdate “2015-11-29”<<<— new line I’ve inserted amrecover> add "2015_02_04 (E)” Added dir "/jmnavarr

Re: Fwd: amrecover seems to work but just leaves empty directory

2015-12-23 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday, December 22, 2015 03:42:33 PM you wrote: > Forwarded Message > Subject: amrecover seems to work but just leaves empty directory > Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:58:08 -0500 > From: Chris Hoogendyk > To: AMANDA users > > > > I am trying to use amr

Fwd: amrecover seems to work but just leaves empty directory

2015-12-23 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Resending, because, as far as I can tell, the first time never went through. Chris Hoogendyk Forwarded Message Subject:amrecover seems to work but just leaves empty directory Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:58:08 -0500 From: Chris Hoogendyk To: AMANDA users I a