Hi Paul,
At 01:48 AM 3/18/03 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
Op ma 17-03-2003, om 18:05 schreef Vytas Janusauskas:
> I am trying to restore a Windows 95 directory to an NT drive connected via
> Samba and get the following error.
>
> /1895-102.tif
> ./1895-103.tif
Does this mean that it restored 1 file?
Yes , that is correct.
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
What command did you use exactly?
amrecover Project as root
setdisk ....
add *
extract
quit
Testing with a re-run of the same data set restored correctly. So the
cause of the restore failure is still a mystery to me. I will keep check
the backup to ensure that they are in fact restorable.
What is the amanda headerblock suggesting as command?
Typically these are errors of a corrupted tarfile, and sometimes
simply of trying to extract a gzipped tar file without the -z option.
> Tape drive being used is Eliant 820 drive with the following definition
>
> define tapetype Eliant 820 {
> comment "Exabyte Eliant 820 drive"
> length 7 gb
> filemark 48 kbytes
> speed 1 mb
> }
As far as I can understand the tapetype here is completely irrelevant.
I agree I just put it in for completeness.
> Tar version is : tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
> Amanda version is: 2.4.2p2
> Disklist entry is: backup /dosworld/pent17/e/Colorado10 comp-user-tar
So you have the share smbmounted on a Unix computer named "backup".
Why not using smbclient, as builtin in Amanda? At least you
can do level 1 incrementals (or maybe even more, I didn't check
in the latest amanda sources.)
The reason for mounting the drive as opposed to using smbclient is that the
directories I am backing up are completed project which are to be removed
from the Windows boxes. Instead of creating temporary shares to these
directories I just mount them and then archive the required
directories. Once I have all the project directories archived I verify the
data via restore to temporary directories and then comment out the project
directories from the disklist. This allows me to archive the projects and
then use Amanda's index files to locate and restore the archived if ever
required. If anyone has a better procedure for archiving Windows completed
project directories I am all ears.
Vytas
Vytas Janusauskas
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