--On Monday, June 23, 2003 16:46:28 -0400 Jon Sippel <jon AT jonsippel DOT com>
wrote:
> I've just finished setting up amanda here, and am making sure I know how to
> do full-volume restores with amrestore before "disaster" strikes and I
> _NEED_ to know. That said, I'm running into a problem: I have a level 0
> dump of a filesystem from one server, and am trying to restore it to a
> different server (same model and drive config/partitions as the original) I
> am using amanda 2.4.4 with gnutar (and a SDLT160, if that matters) on
> Solaris8. When I run:
>
># rsh -n dcsunbackup.ncb.com /usr/local/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/rmt/0cn
> dclawson.ncb.com '\^/sybase\$' | tar t
>
> from the client, all of the files returned are listed under numerical
> directories, for example:
>
> 07674121412/./locales/us_english/mac/ctdrvlib.loc
> 07674121412/./locales/us_english/mac/ctlib.loc
> 07674121412/./locales/us_english/mac/dblib.loc
> 07674121412/./locales/us_english/mac/defncopy.loc
> 07674121412/./locales/us_english/mac/isql.loc
> 07674121412/./locales/us_english/mac/libdna.loc
> 07674121413/./locales/us_english/mac/libinsck.loc
> 07674121413/./locales/us_english/mac/libsdna.loc
> 07674121413/./locales/us_english/mac/libsri.loc
> 07674121413/./locales/us_english/mac/libtli.loc
Indexes with really_big_number directories usually indicate
a defective version of GNU tar ( < 1.13.19, I believe).
What does 'gtar --version' show (substitute whatever path
to gnutar you compiled into Amanda)?
If that is the case, update your tar and force a full
backup as soon as possible. If you need to restore a file
before that happens, all your files are there, just mapped
into meaningless numeric directory names. I think someone
on the list had a script to help with the process, but I
assume there is still a lot of manual labor involved.
Frank
>
> The disklist entry for this filesystem is as follows:
> dclawson.ncb.com /sybase user-tar
>
> And the dumptype is straight from the amanda defaults:
> define dumptype root-tar {
> global
> program "GNUTAR"
> comment "root partitions dumped with tar"
> compress none
> index
> exclude list "/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar"
> priority low
> }
>
> define dumptype user-tar {
> root-tar
> comment "user partitions dumped with tar"
> priority medium
> }
>
> The exclude file is currently empty. So, where are all these directories
> coming from, and more importantly, how can I make them go away?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Jon Sippel
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