this does not look like a tar archive

2014-04-14 Thread Traugott Simon
Hi list, i have a strange problem with two different DLEs. I get the following error on a regular base: DEBIAN //DC02/Backup lev 1 FAILED [/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive] /-- DEBIAN //DC02/Backup lev 1 FAILED [/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive

Re: this does not look like a tar archive

2014-04-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 04/14/2014 04:07 AM, Traugott Simon wrote: Hi list, i have a strange problem with two different DLE´s. I get the following error on a regular base: DEBIAN //DC02/Backup lev 1 FAILED [/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive] /-- DEBIAN //DC02/Backup lev 1 FAILED [/bin/tar

Aw: Re: this does not look like a tar archive

2014-04-14 Thread Traugott Simon
Betreff: Re: this does not look like a tar archive On 04/14/2014 04:07 AM, Traugott Simon wrote: Hi list, i have a strange problem with two different DLE´s. I get the following error on a regular base: DEBIAN //DC02/Backup lev 1 FAILED [/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-19 Thread Matt Burkhardt
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 14:22 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: I'm sorry we don't have any good solid answers for you.. Well, I can give a little more detail. I encrypted a backup with amcryptsimple, then changed

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-17 Thread Matt Burkhardt
tapes are needed: laptops-0001 Restoring files into directory /home/mlb Continue [?/Y/n]? y Extracting files using tape drive changer on host ubuntu.imparisystems.local. Load tape laptops-0001 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? y tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: ./ImpariSystems: Not found

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Matt Burkhardt m...@imparisystems.com wrote: Since it's happened on almost every backup I've tried, I'm assuming I'm missing a very important piece of information - so I do think it's a bad key or I'm missing the public key.  I have another computer that is

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: I'm sorry we don't have any good solid answers for you.. Well, I can give a little more detail. I encrypted a backup with amcryptsimple, then changed the passphrase and tried to decrypt it. I got: gpg: decryption

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-15 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Matt Burkhardt m...@imparisystems.com wrote: The bad key error doesn't mean the passphrase is wrong (that would be invalid passphrase).  It often means that the file you are decrypting is corrupt.  Was the file you are decrypting encrypted with a passphrase

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-12 Thread Matt Burkhardt
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 08:21 +0100, muessi wrote: Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: I'm not terribly familiar with crypto, but presumably you need the secret key to decrypt. Hopefully that was stored somewhere other than on the old computer? BTW, once you get amfetchdump working, amrecover

Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-11 Thread Matt Burkhardt
on host ubuntu.imparisystems.local. Load tape laptops-0002 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? Y tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: ./2007msrsmfinal1.pdf: Not found in archive tar: ./Backup: Not found in archive tar: ./Backup.20090222151811.log: Not found in archive tar: ./Backup.20090222151812

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Amrecover tends to hide the actual error messages, since they occur on the server. Try doing a recovery using amfetchdump, instead. I suspect that there's a missing encryption key or something preventing the recovery. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-11 Thread Matt Burkhardt
Thanks for being so quick Dustin... I did amfetchdump and on the first run through it was complaining about /var/lib/amanda/.am_passphrase missing, so I created it and put in the correct passphrase, now I'm getting this: amfetchdump: slot 10: time 20100205150231 label laptops-0010 (exact label

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Matt Burkhardt m...@imparisystems.com wrote: I did amfetchdump and on the first run through it was complaining about /var/lib/amanda/.am_passphrase missing, so I created it and put in the correct passphrase, now I'm getting this: amfetchdump: slot 10: time

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-11 Thread muessi
Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: I'm not terribly familiar with crypto, but presumably you need the secret key to decrypt. Hopefully that was stored somewhere other than on the old computer? BTW, once you get amfetchdump working, amrecover will work fine. Amrecover just doesn't show error