Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted

2010-04-21 Thread David Stanaway
On 4/21/2010 6:41 PM, A Darren Dunham wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:52:02PM -0400, Len Boyle wrote: > >> I suspect that you still will not be able to read the tape with this >> version of tar as the being of the tar file would be missing. With a >> lot of work you might be able to use the

Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted

2010-04-21 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:52:02PM -0400, Len Boyle wrote: > I suspect that you still will not be able to read the tape with this > version of tar as the being of the tar file would be missing. With a > lot of work you might be able to use the tar source as a base to read > the data and lay it down

Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted

2010-04-20 Thread Michael Graff Andersen
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/tar -tMvb 128 -f /tmp/tapeid worked under NBU4.5 for listing the contains of a multiplexed backup this command is for a block size of 64K. Regards Michael 2010/4/19 Markus, Istvan > NetBackup 6.5: Phase 2 import stops as fragment 1 is no more available: > > > > INF - Sk

Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted

2010-04-19 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
, April 19, 2010 7:20 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted It is just a tar file. You could find the tape file # and position with mt and cat the file out. I have not tried to recover an incomplete tar file, but I am sure

Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted

2010-04-19 Thread Martin, Jonathan
Cleverley Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 12:37 PM To: Markus, Istvan Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted Istvan, You may not be able to use tar to recover data from the tape. It depends on how the tapes were written. If they were

Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted

2010-04-19 Thread Len Boyle
Of Jeff Cleverley Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 12:37 PM To: Markus, Istvan Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted Istvan, You may not be able to use tar to recover data from the tape. It depends on how the tapes were written

Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted

2010-04-19 Thread Jeff Cleverley
Istvan, You may not be able to use tar to recover data from the tape. It depends on how the tapes were written. If they were multiplexed with multiple streams of data going to them tar generally cannot read this. If they were written as a single stream you most likely can recover data from the

Re: [Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted

2010-04-19 Thread David Stanaway
It is just a tar file. You could find the tape file # and position with mt and cat the file out. I have not tried to recover an incomplete tar file, but I am sure there are tools out there. On 4/19/2010 3:18 AM, Markus, Istvan wrote: > > NetBackup 6.5: Phase 2 import stops as fragment 1 is no mo

[Veritas-bu] get back data from tape if fragment 1 deleted

2010-04-19 Thread Markus, Istvan
NetBackup 6.5: Phase 2 import stops as fragment 1 is no more available: INF - Skipping backup id (backup_id), there is no fragment 1 INF - Found no images matching the selection criteria that were ready for phase 2 import. Is there any way to get data from fragment 2? Any help would b