On Thursday 29 September 2005 23:01, Steve H wrote:
>Gene,
> Yes, the index file does exist, and I have two good backups to
> attempt to restore from. However, in checking the Index files, I
> noticed that the actual files had a different date on them (august 5th)
> while all the directories have august 11th. This is bothering me
> because that shouldn't happen. Would Amanda backup only the
> directories if the tape becomes full? Either way, I have the tape from
> August 5th, and when I do a Setdate 2005-05-08, everything shows up in
> the index file as it should. I just can't restore files from
> it...directories work great...LOL.
>
>Any help is greatly apprecaited Gene,
>Steve
Can you read the tape with dd & tar + gunzip according to the
instructions in the first block of every file?
I'm hitting the sack now, dunno who's still up, Steve. Jon's been
known to be a night owl too.
Right now I'm half disgusted, my less than a year old, only a 100 pack
of cd's thru it, LiteOn dvd/cdr burner just went toes up. The
cheaper they get, the cheaper they are...
>--- Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:
>> On Thursday 29 September 2005 22:21, Steve H wrote:
>> >I checked the amanda.conf file, and yes, I am indexing.
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >Steve
>>
>> I'll be up for a little bit yet. Does the index file exist?
>>
>> >--- Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:
>> >> On Thursday 29 September 2005 21:26, Steve H wrote:
>> >> >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
>> >>
>> >> I think he was referring to the DLE (DiskList Entry) pointing to a
>> >> dumptype that had a line saying "index yes".
>> >>
>> >> You can set this once in the global section of your amanda.conf as
>> >> long as the final dumptype chosen does an "include global"
>> >>
>> >> >--- 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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>> >> Cheers, Gene
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>> Cheers, Gene
>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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