hi, what i found was that if I extract the tape file onto disk
with amrestore /dev/nst0 moa
and then
dd if=<file> bs=32k skip=1 of=a
and then tar xvf a it works.
I tried to combine the two commands
dd if<file> bs=32k skip=1 | tar xvf
but it doesnt like it. Any suggestions here?
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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
> >(413) 577 0470 (413) 545 4223 (Fax)
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
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Five College Astronomy Department,
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USA
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