Thanks, Frank.

What's the meaning of leadining number in the path ?

Allen Liu


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Smith" <fsmith AT hoovers DOT com>
To: "Allen Liu --- work" <allen AT bellglobal DOT com>; <amanda-users AT amanda 
DOT org>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: ? amrecover doesn't see index contents


> --On Monday, March 01, 2004 16:11:47 -0500 Allen Liu --- work
<allen AT bellglobal DOT com> wrote:
>
> > I'm running amrecover trying to restore files.
> >
> > After I started amrecover and set  target dis and date, it said no
records
> > found like below:
> > ------------------------
> > amrecover> ls
> > Must select a disk before listing files
> > amrecover> setdisk /test-ama1
> > Scanning /dumps/amanda...
> > 200 Disk set to /test-ama1.
> > No index records for disk for specified date
> > If date correct, notify system administrator
> > amrecover> setdate ---01
> > 200 Working date set to 2004-03-01.
> > No index records for cwd on new date
> > Setting cwd to mount point
> > amrecover> ls
> > ------------------------
> > I can see there is index files in the index dir and the .gz file was
> > extracted when amrecover setdisk to this disk. The extracted text file
has
> > file list inside:
> > --------------------------
> > spike:root:#ls -l
> > total 4
> > -rw-------   1 amanda   sys          142 Mar  1 16:00 20040301_0
> > -rw-------   1 amanda   sys           83 Mar  1 15:58 20040301_0.gz
> > spike:root:#more 20040301_0
> > 10020721223/./cfgadm
> > 10020721223/./chroot
> > 10020721223/./clri
> > 10020721223/./coreadm.conf
> > 10020721223/./crash
> > 10020721223/./cron
> > 10020721732/./
>
> BAD version of tar, make sure you are using at least 1.13.19.
> However, one person on the list had success by manually editing out
> the leading numbers from the paths and then running amrecover.
>
> Frank
>
> > spike:root:#
> > spike:root:#pwd
> > /myapp/am/etc/amanda/fst/index/pete/_test-ama1
> > -------------------------
> >
> > The funny thing is that I have another SAMBA disk with same dumpetype
which
> > works fine with amrecover.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Allen Liu
> >
>
>
>
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