Re: Getting My Data Back Off The Tape

2002-05-29 Thread Nick Russo
On Wed, 29 May 2002, GIC MLs wrote: > I followed your advice and ran the command with the -tvf - flags, which > seemed to only give me a listing of directories.: Tar stores all the directories first, so if you are impatient, you might not wait around until the files start showing up :) Nick

Re: Getting My Data Back Off The Tape

2002-05-28 Thread GIC MLs
Thanks very much for the help... > First make a scratch directory like this: > mkdir /var/tmp/testing/ > Then, from inside that directory, run the same dd command, but > with "gtar -tvf -" so you can see exactly which files got into > the archive. This also shows what the file names look like.

Re: Getting My Data Back Off The Tape

2002-05-28 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:46:01PM -0400, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > On Wed, 29 May 2002, GIC MLs wrote: > > > # dd if=/dev/nrsa0 bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/local/bin/gtar -xf usr.dump > > > > ... but I get: > > > > /usr/local/bin/gtar: usr.dump: Cannot open: (null) > > /usr/local/bin/gtar: Error i

Re: Getting My Data Back Off The Tape

2002-05-28 Thread Nick Russo
On Wed, 29 May 2002, GIC MLs wrote: > Now my problem is this... > > # dd if=/dev/nrsa0 bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/local/bin/gtar -xf - usr.dump First make a scratch directory like this: mkdir /var/tmp/testing/ Then, from inside that directory, run the same dd command, but with "gtar -tvf -" so you

Re: Getting My Data Back Off The Tape

2002-05-28 Thread GIC MLs
> Yeah, it's right here in the SYNOPSIS section of the man page: > > SYNOPSIS >tar [ - ] A --catenate --concatenate | c --create | d > Ok, see it now? (Neither do I :-) :-))) > But you need a - after the -xf, > otherwise tar is trying to read its input from usr.dump, which it ca

Re: Getting My Data Back Off The Tape

2002-05-28 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Wed, 29 May 2002, GIC MLs wrote: > # dd if=/dev/nrsa0 bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/local/bin/gtar -xf usr.dump > > ... but I get: > > /usr/local/bin/gtar: usr.dump: Cannot open: (null) > /usr/local/bin/gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > What am I doing wrong here? Am I using the gtar com

Getting My Data Back Off The Tape

2002-05-28 Thread GIC MLs
Hi, Ok, so I have finally got Amanda to write a partition to tape. Now I want to grab a file off of the tape. I'm using Amanda-2.4.2p2 on FreeBSD. After a successful amcheck and amdump, I run # mt rewind # mt fsf 001 to position the tape at the beginning of where I wrote daily001. I'm followi