Try putting a / in front of usr/sbin/restore and see if that helps.


Jason


> From: Kevin Alford <kevin.alford AT tmctechnologies DOT com>
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:40:58 -0500
> To: <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>, <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
> Subject: RE: Amanda server crashed!!!
> 
> 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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