Re: Zmanda Windows Client ZIP files

2013-11-15 Thread flooding Controlled
I have the same issue on the pkzip files. The latest version amanda 3.3.4 uses this as default on windows client. So it made me difficult to unzip the pkzip files... any suggestions ? Thanks. Regards. flooding2012

Re: Zmanda Windows Client ZIP files

2013-11-15 Thread Chris Nighswonger
After some further testing this morning and this afternoon, here is what I find: 1. I am able to unzip the files on our Amanda server using the unix 'unzip' utility, but there are random error: invalid compressed data to inflate errors. These do not appear to affect all files, but that is

Re: Zmanda Windows Client ZIP files

2013-11-15 Thread Markus Iturriaga Woelfel
Here are my findings in relation to what Chris posted: On Nov 15, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: After some further testing this morning and this afternoon, here is what I find: 1. I am able to unzip the files on our Amanda server using the unix

Re: Zmanda Windows Client ZIP files

2013-11-15 Thread Alan Hodgson
It seems that there is a definite issue with ZWC. Its a bit much trouble to setup a test bed and hunt through prior versions of ZWC to discover if this is a regression and when it occurred, although I think it is as I have not noticed this problem when restoring files in the past from

Re: Zmanda Windows Client ZIP files

2013-11-15 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Adding some additional info which I should have included to start with: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Markus Iturriaga Woelfel mitur...@eecs.utk.edu wrote: Here are my findings in relation to what Chris posted: On Nov 15, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu

Re: Zmanda Windows Client ZIP files

2013-11-15 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Schlacta, Christ aarc...@aarcane.orgwrote: This subject segues to a feature request fairly well. Can zwc or another client be made to integrate well with the existing Windows 7 and 8 system backup and restore interface? That'd be a dream. ZWC uses the MS

Re: Zmanda Windows Client ZIP files

2013-11-15 Thread Markus Iturriaga Woelfel
On Nov 15, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Paddy Sreenivasan psreeniva...@carbonite.com wrote: It seems that there is a definite issue with ZWC. Its a bit much trouble to setup a test bed and hunt through prior versions of ZWC to discover if this is a regression and when it occurred, although I

Re: Zmanda Windows Client ZIP files

2013-11-15 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Paddy Sreenivasan psreeniva...@carbonite.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Schlacta, Christ aarc...@aarcane.orgwrote: This subject segues to a feature

Re: Zmanda Windows Client ZIP files

2013-11-15 Thread Markus Iturriaga Woelfel
We don't use Pkzip command to zip it up. We use ZIP64 archive format. PKzip is only tool that we have seen that uses ZIP64 format well. Others zip programs also attempt to do so but may not work in all cases. Info-Zip supports ZIP64 but still cannot properly process ZWC's zip files. I

Re: Zmanda Windows Client ZIP files

2013-11-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
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Re: Zmanda Windows Client ZIP files

2013-11-14 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Hello Markus, We have mostly win clients on Amanda for several years now. What you describe should work fine. I'll double check my procedure later this morning and post exactly how it goes. Chris -Sent from my droid On Nov 13, 2013 5:14 PM, Markus Iturriaga Woelfel mitur...@eecs.utk.edu wrote:

Re: Zmanda Windows Client ZIP files

2013-11-14 Thread Markus Iturriaga Woelfel
Sent from my iPhone Amanda dump images have a 32 kB special amanda header in the beginning, followed by the actual backed-up data. This header contains, among other things, human-readable information about how to extract the dump. In order to extract the dump, this 32 kB header should

Zmanda Windows Client ZIP files

2013-11-13 Thread Markus Iturriaga Woelfel
Hi fellow Amanda Users - I've been trying to figure out how to read the ZIP files generated by the ZManda Windows Client on our Red Hat 6 Amanda server. The information I can find on the mailing list is somewhat conflicting. We've been using Amanda for years to back up Linux/Unix systems but

Re: Zmanda Windows Client ZIP files

2013-11-13 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello Markus! 1) I can use amfetchdump to get what appears to be a zip file: # file staff15.zip staff15.zip: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract 2) The unzip command (which has ZIP64 support) does not recognize this as a proper file: Amanda dump images have a 32 kB special amanda