On Thursday 15 January 2004 13:17, Shashi Kanbur wrote:
>Im using amanda version 2.4.4p1 on a linux amanda server and backing
> up mainly linux machines but also two irix machines. the disklist
> entry for these states
>
>/scr comp-home-tar
>
>and the log file states that the backup was successful. However,
> when I use amrecover to get the files, it syas there are no index
> files. When I look in curinfo, I find the tape it used, load that
> tape and then use amrestore to get a file back onto my linux
> server.
>But how do I convert this file to directories and files as on the
> original irix machine?

If you are saying that you now have that tapefile as one piece on the 
server, presumably extracted from the tape with dd, did you not read 
the 32k header in front of it?  That header contains the example 
command line that you would use to extract its constituant pieces, 
the dirs and files actually packed into that tapefile.

>From the dumptype spec'ed above, I would assume that once it was moved 
to someplace temp with enough storage room to contain it, then a:
"tar xzvf tapefilename" should unpack it by automaticly calling gunzip 
and feeding its output back into tar.  From there, you can them move 
the stuff to where you want it.

Or is my crystal ball broken and thats not what you wanted?
Sometimes it jumps to conclusions when not enough data is presented. 
:)

>Shashi Kanbur                                 
> shashi AT fcrao1.astro.umass DOT edu Five College Astronomy Department,
>University of Massachusetts,
>Amherst,
>MA 01003
>USA
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