On Thursday 29 September 2005 21:26, Steve H wrote:
>I am on a Red Hat 9 box. Pervious tar verion was 1.13, just upgraded to
> 1.15 and it didn't fix the issue. What do you mean by indexing DLE?
>
>Thanks,
>Steve
>
I think he was referring to the DLE (DiskList Entry) pointing to a
dumptype that had a line saying "index yes".
You can set this once in the global section of your amanda.conf as
long as the final dumptype chosen does an "include global"
>--- Vera <dobryanskaya AT adelphia DOT net> wrote:
>> I do not remember exactly what was a reason for this error, but I saw
>> it before :-)
>>
>> 1. Are you indexing this DLE?
>> 2. What OS are you using? FC3 distributive had tar 1.14 with a bug - >
>> check the amrecover log file and if error happens at the "tar" point,
>> then simple upgrade your tar RPM or reinstall it from sources
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Steve H" <big_dog_steve AT yahoo DOT com>
>> To: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:42 PM
>> Subject: Using amrecover - strange happenings
>>
>> > Guys,
>> >
>> > I would appreciate some help with this one, as it's freaking me
>> > out. I have
>> > been getting backups for a while now of a particular host and file
>> > system. I
>> > have tested the recovery before and it worked great.
>> > This time, I put the necessary tape in, and run amrecover and it
>> > will only
>> > restore the directories. The files will not restore, and I keep
>> > getting the
>> > error:
>> >
>> > ./laptopBackups/Documents and Settings/My Documents/
>> > tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
>> > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>> > extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 2
>> > Continue [?/Y/n]?
>> >
>> > so I started looking at the actual index for that and their are no
>> > files listed
>> > in the index, only directories.
>> >
>> > I started checking the dates, and it seems like the directories have
>> > been backed up, and they all have the same date of backup, but the
>> > actual documents
>> > have a different date. It's like they were backed up once, but
>> > never got backed up again.
>> >
>> > Does this have to do with the tape rotation? what am I missing? I
>> > have the
>> > tape that lists the documents, and it even lists them when I browse
>> > the tape
>> > with amrecover, but I can't extract them, I get the error above.
>> >
>> > Please help,
>> > Steve
>> >
>> >
>> >
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