On Fri April 11 2003 09:52, Tom Brown wrote:
>> Once i had this kind of error. just restore denies that the
>> backup is done with dump, though it really was.
>>
>> I did this:
>>
>> (i saw, that the file you need is 30th on the tape)
>>
>> $mt -f norewind-tapedev fsf 30
>> $dd if=norewind-tapedev bs=32k
>> of=/direcory/with/lotsof/room/bigfile
>>
>> now
>> $cd /directory/with/lotsof/room
>> $dd if=bigfile bs=32k count=1
>>
>> (this outputs the amanda header, where is written with what you
>> need to restore the backup with).
>>
>> $amrestore bigfile
>> (this outputs a file, similar to machine.usr.20030312.0)
>>
>> (lets say you need to restore with RESTORE):
>> $restore -x -f machine.usr.20030312.0
>> (this restores all of the files in the dump to the current
>> directory. See restore(8) for other options, -i for example)
>
>Hi,
>
>I used a mix if your method and Jon's additions to get the data
> off the tape - Thanks for all the help, even though amanda
> produced the tape does anyone know why amrestore refuses to
> believe so?

You *do* have indexing turned on in your dumptype selection I hope.

>It is backed up using tar within amanda but is there no easier way
> to restore this?
>
>Tom

-- 
Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
Athlon1600XP@1400mhz  512M
99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message
by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.