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Re: amrecover from VTAPES

2005-10-07 20:29:12
Subject: Re: amrecover from VTAPES
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:14:21 -0400
On Friday 07 October 2005 18:15, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Friday 07 October 2005 14:52, Bernard_Wu AT NCCI DOT COM wrote:
>>Hi Listserve,
>>I have my tapes defined as VTAPES.  I have taken a full and 2
>> incremental backups.  I now want to restore from those backups.  My
>> amrecover dies with the following messages:
>>      .
>>      .
>>      .
>>Extracting files using tape drive file:/amandatape/daily on host
>>lnxdev.ncci.com.
>>Load tape dump600 now
>>Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? Y
>>EOF, check amidxtaped.<timestamp>.debug file on lnxdev.ncci.com.
>>amrecover: short block 0 bytes
>>UNKNOWN file
>>amrecover: Can't read file header
>>extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
>>Continue [?/Y/n/r]? Y
>>amrecover> quit
>>200 Good bye.
>>
>>Here is the file listing of slot6 where dump600 resides :
>>
>> # cd slot6
>>***1014*** [root@lnxdev:/amandatape/daily/slot6] *** uid=0 ***
>> # ls -la
>>total 408968
>>drwxr-xr-x  2 amanda disk          4096 Oct  5 13:11 .
>>drwxr-xr-x  8 amanda disk          4096 Oct  7 13:36 ..
>>-rw-------  1 amanda disk                  10 Oct  5 13:10
>> 00000-dump600 -rw-------  1 amanda disk          32768 Oct  5 13:10
>> 00000.dump600 -rw-------  1 amanda disk                 14 Oct  5
>> 13:11
>>00001-lnxdev.ncci.com._caplan_unixdata_accdata.0
>>-rw-------  1 amanda disk 418283520 Oct  5 13:11
>>00001.lnxdev.ncci.com._caplan_unixdata_accdata.0
>>-rw-------  1 amanda disk                 10 Oct  5 13:11 00002-TAPEEND
>>-rw-------  1 amanda disk          32768 Oct  5 13:11 00002.TAPEEND
>>lrwxrwxrwx  1 amanda disk            23 Oct  5 13:10 slot1 ->
>>/amandatape/daily/slot1
>>***1015*** [root@lnxdev:/amandatape/daily/slot6] *** uid=0 ***
>
>Yes, but what does the /amandatape/data link point to?
>This is how the amanda utils will address it.

Darn, my brain was on vacation, that should have been
/amandatape/daily/data
Sorry about the confusion.

>>Any idea how to retireve files from
>>00001.lnxdev.ncci.com._caplan_unixdata_accdata.0
>
>The individual files in the slot6 directory can be unpacked with the
>instructions you'll get from this command issued after cd'ing to a
>scratch directory that has enough space to receive it:
>
>dd
>if=/amandatapes/daily/slot6/0001.lnxdev.mnnc.com_caplan_unixdata_assdata
>.0
>
>All on one line of course. :)  The file is a normal tarball, possibly
>compressed with gzip, with a 32k long amanda header at the
>front of the file.
>
>>TIA
>>
>>Bernie Wu
>>bernard_wu AT ncci DOT com
>>
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