Thanks Alexander and Paul!
it was the bad version of tar. Updating to 1.15.1 fixed everything
and my files are now restored.
Thanks!
Cameron Matheson
On 6/22/05, Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com> wrote:
> Cam wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 6/22/05, Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com> wrote:
> >
> >>There should also be a debug file named "amidxtaped.DATETIME.debug"
> >>containing the details of the amrestore command used to extract
> >>the data from the tape.
> >
> >
> > thanks! i checked that file and it was warning me about the tape being
> > rewound (i thought i had checked that...), anyway, i made sure the
>
> I have these three settings in amanda.conf, and one side effect
> of it is that the tape is always automatically rewound:
>
> amrecover_do_fsf on
> amrecover_check_label on
>
>
>
> > tape was cool and everything and tried it again today. I get
> > different errors now:
> >
> [...]
> > tar: ./etc/postfix/canonical.db: invalid sparse archive member
>
>
> Aha, next problem. That's a symptom of gnutar 1.14 which has trouble
> with restoring sparse files. Use an older version 1.13.25 or
> a newer version 1.15.1 to restore. See:
>
> http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2554302
>
>
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