I am on a Red Hat 9 box. Pervious tar verion was 1.13, just upgraded to 1.15
and it didn't fix the issue. What do you mean by indexing DLE?
Thanks,
Steve
--- Vera <dobryanskaya AT adelphia DOT net> wrote:
> I do not remember exactly what was a reason for this error, but I saw it
> before :-)
>
> 1. Are you indexing this DLE?
> 2. What OS are you using? FC3 distributive had tar 1.14 with a bug - > check
> the amrecover log file and if error happens at the "tar" point, then simple
> upgrade your tar RPM or reinstall it from sources
>
> ----- 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
> >
> >
> >
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