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Re: Recovering from backup to file

2003-09-25 13:17:04
Subject: Re: Recovering from backup to file
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: Amanda-Users <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:00:46 -0400
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:16:48AM -0500, Josh Welch wrote:
> However, it now turns out that when I have been archiving my backups to
> tape, I have not been archiving the index files, crap. So, I have the files
> backed up, but not sure how to get at the data within. I read about using dd
> to get at a tapes contents and then untarring them, and so I tried using tar
> to extract from the 000030.mplslx1.buffalowildwings.com_home.0 file, but it
> said it was not a tar archive. So, I am wondering if anyone has any ideas of
> how I can go about this.

dd the first 32K block of the file to see instructions.

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