On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 08:22 -0700, Paddy Sreenivasan wrote:
> 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

It sounds like you are using the older Windows client that uses Cygwin
and thus tar.  Don't know why it seems the x is missing nor how one
would manually put it back.  There are 3 newer versions of this client
however if an upgrade is worth a shot.

Paul

> 
> 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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