On Monday 31 January 2005 11:52, Jason Miller wrote:
>Try putting a / in front of usr/sbin/restore and see if that helps.
>
Can I say DUH! I missed that typu.
>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
>>
>> --
>> 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)
>> 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
>> Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene
>> Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights
>> reserved.
--
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)
99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message
by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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