Amanda-Users

SMB backups of windows boxes

2003-04-08 06:06:16
Subject: SMB backups of windows boxes
From: "Tom Brown" <tom.brown AT goodtechnology DOT com>
To: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:51:04 +0100
Hi,

We are backing up around 20 *NIX boxes each night and this runs without
issue. On the same run i have to get a windows box onto tape using the SMB
share method. This seems to work fine and due to network activity and the
mail report i can see that the data from the wondows box seems to be on the
tape.

However when i try and restore the backup of the wondows box i get the
following....

** Error detected (xxx.__xxxx_web.20030408.1)
amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset
amrestore:   0: restoring xxx.__xxxx_web.20030408.1
/bin/gtar: Skipping to next header
/bin/gtar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
/bin/gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
64+0 records in
64+0 records out

does anyone know what this error is and how to fix it?

thanks

Tom