I am getting the following error. I have found my data.
[root@lightning /class_saa/restore]# dd if=/dev/rmt1.1 bs=32k skip=1 |
/usr/bin/gzip -dc | usr/sbin/restore -f... -
-bash: usr/sbin/restore: A file or directory in the path name does not
exist.
1+0 records in.
1+0 records out.
I am stumped?
Kevin D. Alford
-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 11:16 AM
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Cc: Kevin Alford
Subject: Re: Amanda server crashed!!!
On Monday 31 January 2005 06:30, Kevin Alford wrote:
>My Amanda backup server crashed, and I had to rebuild it. I was
>running Amanda 2.4.2p2 on AIX 5.1 ML6.
>I desperately need to restore the data from my Amanda tapes, but I
>don't have the Amanda index files.
>Isn't there a way I can use native Unix to read and restore my tapes
>written by Amanda?
>Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated.
>
Sure, use mt to rewind the tape, starting with a tape thats at least a
dumpcycle old. dd the label block out to verify the correct starting
tape, then dd the next block, both of these to stdout, and follow the
directions in the 2nd block to recover the first file to scratch
storage. dd the next block to stdout to get the instructions again as it
may change from file to file depending on your use of software
compression.
Repeat as required, moving stuff from scratch to where it goes until
you've recovered it all. You'll be a day or so I expect unless you feel
confident and cd to the target dir the next file came from, thereby
saving you the trouble of moving all that stuff from scratch storage.
One of the things I do here, over and above what amanda does, is to make
a tarball of both the amanda config directory's contents, and the indice
directory's contents, and append them to the tape every night after the
amdump run is finished and any file locks amdump may have had on things,
causeing that file to be missing in the backup, have been removed so I
get the whole maryann.
This may require a reduction in the specified tapesize in your tapetype
in order to make sure amanda saves room for them. This is done by the
wrapper script that cron calls, and which then does the amdump, followed
by this extra stuff so that the end of the tape actually has the indice
and config files on it that wrote *that* tape.
Currently my scripts have been simplified considerable by liberal use of
the comment character as I'm now useing vtapes on a big hard drive, but
anyone who'd like a copy of them is welcome. The comments, and variable
useage should be grokable by someone familiar with bash scripts.
But, by the use of these, I can lose a drive, reinstall the current os
in bare bones mode, and almost any version of amanda in the 2.4.5
series, use dd to recover those last 2 files, and then have all of
amanda's facilities to do the rest of the recovery. That of course is
if the drive lost isn't the new 200GB I'm using for the vtape storage.
:)
>
>Kevin D. Alford
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