On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 03:53:40PM -0700, William Yardley wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 03:23:13PM -0700, William Yardley wrote:
> [ Sorry for the self-followup ]
> > I'm having problems restoring data from a particular machine / partition
> > using amanda and "restore".
> > 
> > $ amrestore -p /dev/nst0 somemachine /home  | /sbin/restore -ivf -
> > Verify tape and initialize maps
> > Input is from a local file/pipe
> > amrestore: missing file header block
> > amrestore:   2: skipping xxx._xxxx.20060524.1
> > amrestore:  10: reached end of information
> [...]
> > This is with RHEL4u3 (has always worked fine with RHEL3, and almost the
> > same versions - dump v 0.4b37 and same Amanda version).
> 
> Actually, I stand corrected... this only worked with Amanda 2.4, so I
> guess it didn't break when we switched machines.
> 
> I found a workaround that works for my particular situation - use
> amadmin to get the tape and file #, then do:
> 
> $ amrestore -p /dev/nst0 -f 20 | /sbin/restore -ivf -
> 
> Still would be interested if anyone has any insight as to why the other
> way doesn't work... maybe the syntax just needs to be slightly
> different? From a quick look at TFM, I'm pretty sure I'm doing it the
> "right" way.
> 

Seems right to me.

I did note a typo error in the latest manpage for amrestore.

The old version said:

    ... tapedev | holdfile  [  host ...

The new version changes the "[" to a "|" as in

    ... tapedev | holdfile  |  host ...

I highly doubt that reflects a change in the code.

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