Re: Extracting from a gnutar image

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 i

Re: Extracting from a gnutar image

> > I can extract the gnutar image from the tape with amrestore, now how > > can I untar the image file I get? > > This is why man pages exist -- 'man tar'. 'tar xf $FILENAME' is a good > start. Too true. I tried on another file extracted via amrestore, but it complained about invalid format, t

Re: Extracting from a gnutar image

On Thursday 19 January 2006 00:40, 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 a

Re: Extracting from a gnutar image

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 at 12:40pm, Olivier Nicole wrote 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? This is why man pages exist -- 'ma

Extracting from a gnutar image

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 it? TIA, Olivier