Thanks Paul!!! That worked a treat. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com] 
> Sent: 07 June 2006 14:40
> To: John Clement
> Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: Restoring windows partition written using smbclient
> 
> On 2006-06-07 15:23, John Clement wrote:
> > I'm trying to restore the contents of
> > 
> > AMANDA: FILE 20060601 orinoco.deanst.rroom.net 
> > //tlswindev1.deanst.rroom.net/e$ lev 0 comp .gz program 
> > /usr/bin/smbclient
> > 
> > However I don't know how to get this off the tape into a 
> usable format.
> 
> The first 32K block of the file on tape contains the instructions.
> 
> Have you read:
> 
> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Restoring_files
> 
> Especially the secion about restoring with "amrestore".
> The windows tar is compatible with gnutar, so to restore on 
> the server itself, just use gnutar.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > It was generated from the DLE
> > 
> > orinoco.deanst.rroom.net    //tlswindev1.deanst.rroom.net/e$
> > comp-root-tar-win
> > 
> > And from amanda.conf
> > 
> > define dumptype comp-root-tar-win {
> >     root-tar
> >     comment "Root partitions with compression"
> >     compress client fast
> >     index
> >     #exclude list "/var/lib/amanda/exclusions.txt"
> > }
> > 
> > I need to restore it to the amanda server as I'm still trying to 
> > reinstall 'tlswindev1' after its only disk (yes, I know, when its 
> > replaced I'll be insisting on RAID) died last night, and I can't 
> > afford the network traffic (the dump to tape should be about 30GB).
> 
> Something like this should work (untested):
> 
> # cd /space/tmp              # somewhere with enough free diskspace
> # mt -t /dev/st0 rewind      # fill in your tape device
> # amrestore -p /dev/nst0 orinoco.deanst.rroom.net 
> '//tlswindev1.deanst.rroom.net/e\$'  | gtar --numeric-owner -xpvf -
> 
> 
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