Just an observation:

1.  Tar will happily extract the entire contents of the archive 
if you don't specify files or sets of files to extract.  So:
        tar xvf -
says extract all files from archive that is in standard input.

2.  Check to see if your user ID has permission to extract the files
into the current directory.  If you are running the tar as the 'amanda' 
user ID, you may not be able to write the extracted files into the 
current directory.  If the parent directories could not be created,
the messages you are seeing are what could be expected in that case.

Don

Donald L. (Don) Ritchey
E-mail:  Donald.Ritchey AT exeloncorp DOT com


-----Original Message-----
From: Yeates, Stephen [Heanet] [mailto:stephen.yeates AT heanet DOT ie]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:40 AM
To: 'Byarlay, Wayne A.'; 'amanda-users AT amanda DOT org'
Subject: RE: amrestore + tar not working.


Hi Wayne,
        I'm new to this group but in my experience you need to 
specify the directory name to extract for tar

So if you want everything relative to server <pathname> you would specify

/usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 <servername> <pathname> | tar xvf - ./

or if you know the directory name

/usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 <servername> <pathname> | tar xvf - ./foo

This will extract files into your current working directory you can test it
with 

/usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 <servername> <pathname> | tar tvf - ./foo

HTH!

Does anyone know how to get around [parse of reply message failed]
when backing up a solaris 2.6 client to amanda server?

Any help would be appreciated more details of setup if needed but I'm
heading away
for the evening so will get back tommorrow.

regards,

Stephen 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]On Behalf Of Byarlay, Wayne A.
Sent: 09 October 2003 16:56
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: amrestore + tar not working.


Hi. I just want to extract * from a tar'ed tape archive to '.' (current
directory on the backup server). I've done it before and it worked OK.
Maybe I wrote something down wrong from before.

> /usr/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 <servername> <pathname> | tar xvf -

All I get for any server/filesystem is:

tar: /whatever/whatever: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: /whatever/whatever2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
.
.
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Am I doing something wrong?

wab



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