On Monday 11 November 2002 00:20, Frank Smith wrote:
>--On Monday, November 11, 2002 04:36:12 -0500 Gene Heskett 
<gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net> wrote:
>> Hi everybody;
[...]
>>
>> Ideas/hints/elevated noses/scorn/tar for dummys messages ? 
>> Proper tar syntax, etc ... will be very much appreciated.
>
>So I assume you've already tried the instructions from the
> chapter? What exactly did that result in?  The Amanda header
> blocks on the tapes should give you the filesystem name and
> level, as well as the command needed to do the restore.
>
>Frank

Got it Frank, and thanks.  Turns out the one thing the docs don't 
say is that if one does a "dd if=/dev/nst0 count=1" to read the 
header, this leaves the tape in position to do the next "dd 
if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k |tar -xzvf -" (remove the z if the header says 
its not compressed)

Its in the middle of recovering about 4 gigs worth of music, mostly 
oggs of my own cd's.  I backed up a dumpcycle worth of tapes and 
I'm just playing everything back in order.  Its amazing how much 
that recommended "skip=1" in the sample command line can screw you 
up.

Nowhere near a full recovery yet, but at least I'm online...

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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