On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Tim Johnson J.
<tim AT earth.northwestern DOT edu> wrote:
>
>    Silly question that I am sure someone has seen,
> but I could not see an answer on the wiki's for.
>
>  While doing a restore of the backups for a windows machine
> (backup via the zmanada client install) the restore fails with
> a /bin/tar.exe error.
>
>  In the header of the backup AMANDA: FILE it specifies "/bin/tar.exe -f -"
> without the "x" option:
>
> dd if=<tape> bs=32k skip=1 |       /bin/gzip -dc |   /bin/tar.exe -f - ...
>
>
>
>
>   I can take the backup via command line and extract the file by adding
> the "x" to the tar command.

Windows client uses zip format. This command will not work.  Please
follow directions from
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Zmanda_Windows_Client#Restoring_files_to_the_Windows_client

Paddy
>   Is there any options on the client (2.5.1.2) to change it to allow using
> the "x" tar option so the backups of the windows machine will function with
> amrestore.
>
>
> Thanks for any input.
>



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