On Thursday 15 January 2004 16:10, Shashi Kanbur wrote:
>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
IIRC, the tar command should have had a - after it.
dd if=file bs=32768 skip=1 | tar xzvf -
I stuck the z in because your dumptype indicated a compressed file
format.
Alternatively, if you resposition the tape back at the head of that
file, and do:
dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32768 count=1
it will spit out the unpacking instructions for that particular file.
If you have that header still attached at the front of the file you
could probably do the same thing with it.
>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
>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap,
>> ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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>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
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap,
ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message
by Gene Heskett are:
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