How do you recover an amanda dump file without amrestore? I had dd'd
one to disk and tried to untar it but got the message "not a tar
file". Once I ran it through amrestore I was able to untar it
though.

George Kelbley said:
> restoring w/o amrestore can be done with dd, gzip, tar, and so on,
> way
> messy compared to amrecover (or amrestore) but its possible.  That's
> one
> of the plus's to amanda.
>
> Kurt Yoder wrote:
>>
>> Assuming you're running Linux, all you need is some form of Linux
>> rescue disk. I've got a bunch of Debian installer cd's lying
>> around
>> and have used them for similar purposes before. Probably most
>> Linux
>> installer cd's can be used like this, and I'm quite certain
>> something like Knoppix would include all the utilities anyone
>> would
>> need. Who knows, might even work to restore tapes made with
>> non-Linux amanda servers.
>>
>> BTW, if restoring without an amanda server, doesn't one also need
>> amrestore? The other day I tried restoring an amanda image, and
>> had
>> to run it through amrestore before I could untar it.
>>
>> Eric Siegerman said:
>> > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:17:16PM -0400, Ean Kingston wrote:
>> >> Also, with hardware compression, I know I can restore the tape
>> >> without having
>> >> to worry about finding the right libraries and programs to do
>> the
>> >> restore.
>> >
>> > True.  But one can work around that by backing up /
>> uncompressed,
>> > and making sure it contains a (possibly statically linked) copy
>> > of gzip.  Hmmm, something to add to my to-do list :-(
>>
>> --
>> Kurt Yoder
>> Sport & Health network administrator
>
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Kurt Yoder
Sport & Health network administrator