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Re: amrestore question

2003-06-23 22:33:18
Subject: Re: amrestore question
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
To: "Jon Sippel" <jon AT jonsippel DOT com>, "Amanda List" <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:23:15 -0400
On Monday 23 June 2003 16:46, Jon Sippel 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
>
>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

Whats the version of tar that actually ran?

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