Re: re-assemble dump from tape drive

2012-11-06 Thread Gour
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 07:05:23 -0500 Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > You should have use amfetchdump, it retrieve all parts and > concatenate them. Afaik, amfetchdump needs 'state' in order to work and my amadmin does not produce sensible results...otherwise I'd just use amrecover. Sincerely, Gour

Re: re-assemble dump from tape drive

2012-11-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 11/06/2012 06:49 AM, Gour wrote: On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:42:15 -0500 Jon LaBadie wrote: Assuming they are compressed with gzip you might try this untested piece. This worked: amrestore -p /dev/nst0 host >> allparts executed on the last tape image. You should have use amfetchdump, it r

Re: re-assemble dump from tape drive

2012-11-06 Thread Gour
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:42:15 -0500 Jon LaBadie wrote: > Assuming they are compressed with gzip you might try this > untested piece. This worked: amrestore -p /dev/nst0 host >> allparts executed on the last tape image. Sincerely, Gour -- The spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false

Re: re-assemble dump from tape drive

2012-11-06 Thread Gour
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:42:15 -0500 Jon LaBadie wrote: > Assuming they are compressed with gzip you might try this > untested piece. They're not compressed... > for p in part1 part2 part3 > do > dd if=$p bs=32k skip1 | gzip -d > done | gzip > allparts.gzt I did concatenated two part

Re: re-assemble dump from tape drive

2012-11-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 09:07:36AM +0100, Gour wrote: > Hello! > > I've a dump slit into 3 parts which I'd like to re-assemble into > working tar archive in order to do selective restore. > > So far, I did amrestore 2 images from the tapes and glued them together > into one file named 'whole'. >