On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:08:23PM -0600, Vera wrote:
> I do not remember exactly what was a reason for this error, but I saw it
> before :-)
>
I'm going to sound just like Vera :(
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve H" <big_dog_steve AT yahoo DOT com>
> To: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:42 PM
> Subject: Using amrecover - strange happenings
>
>
> >Guys,
> >
> > I would appreciate some help with this one, as it's freaking me out. I
> >have
> >been getting backups for a while now of a particular host and file system.
> >I
> >have tested the recovery before and it worked great.
> > This time, I put the necessary tape in, and run amrecover and it will
> >only
> >restore the directories. The files will not restore, and I keep getting
> >the
> >error:
> >
> >./laptopBackups/Documents and Settings/My Documents/
> >tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> >tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> >extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 2
> >Continue [?/Y/n]?
> >
> >so I started looking at the actual index for that and their are no files
> >listed
> >in the index, only directories.
> >
> >I started checking the dates, and it seems like the directories have been
> >backed up, and they all have the same date of backup, but the actual
> >documents
> >have a different date. It's like they were backed up once, but never got
> >backed up again.
> >
> >Does this have to do with the tape rotation? what am I missing? I have
> >the
> >tape that lists the documents, and it even lists them when I browse the
> >tape
> >with amrecover, but I can't extract them, I get the error above.
> >
> >Please help,
> >Steve
I recall having a similar problem a couple of years ago. It was one of
two scenarios (I think). Either I was trying a different version of tar
or I was trying the cygwin version of amanda. It might have been both,
because I recall one thing I had to do to get the cygwin version working
was download and compile 1.13.25 gnutar under cygwin.
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