Jon LaBadie said:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:46:49AM -0700, Tanniel Simonian wrote:
>> Hello Group,
>>
>> I tend to figure things out on my own fairly quickly, however I can't
>> seem
>> to figure this problem out.
>>
>> I have a tape that I archived on February 25th, 2005.
>>
>> My tape cycle is 5 weeks and therefore February 25th has long been gone.
>
> A tapecycle has no units.
> It is a simple integer, number of tapes in rotation.
>
>>
>> I had stopped backing up this particular host on that date due to
>> stability issues. However, I need to restore a tar'd file from this tape
>> off that host.
>>
>
> How do you mean you "archived" that tape?  Is that a different
> archive config?  Or did you just pull it out of rotation?
> Possibly replacing it with another of the same label so
> amanda thinks it might have been overwritten?
>
Pulled the tape out of rotation and placed a new tape with the same label.

>> At first I figured that since the tape was old, that the index record
>> has
>> been rotated or removed. I check
>> /var/lib/amanda/xes/index/brimstone/sdb1
>> and noticed that the index file does index exist for that date.
>
> Was that a level 0?  I wonder if a level  is needed for amrecover
> to work - I don't know the answer.

Yes the tape is a level 0.

>
> Does it have a list of files?  Or might the dump have failed that day?
> You mentioned some type of stability problems.
>
The instability did not affect the backups of that particular machine. The
instability was due to old hardware and the proactive need to replace it.

>> If it is not possible to use amrecover at this point, someone one to
>> point
>> me on how to restore a file from tape that has a combination of zipped
>> tar's and dumps.
>
> Joshua pointed you in the right direction.

Yes, thanks for the point. I was able to find the correct tape file and
restore all the files from the tape. Then grabbed what I needed and
deleted the rest. Not as elegant as the interactive amrestore or
amrecover, but it got the job done.

Thanks for the responses.

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