Prior to NW 7, cross-platform recovers are not
possible, nor supported. Try restoring to a Windows
client instead.

// Matts

 --- "EXT / CADENCE SIXA PRIGENT Yves (DSIT-XA)"
<ext.cadencesixa.prigent AT SNCF DOT FR> skrev: > With the
version of Networker we use (6.1.3)
> recovering Windows files to a
> Unix box produce always zero length files.
> Maybe it is not true in more recents releases (7.x)
>
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De:   Robert L. Harris
> [SMTP:Robert.L.Harris AT RDLG DOT NET]
> > Date: mardi 29 avril 2003 15:58
> > À:  NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> > Objet:        Re: [Networker] Recovered file is 0
> bytes?
> >
> > It's a payroll system.  The file shouldn't have
> been in use.  In
> > addition I told it to recover the entire saveset
> from the tape in
> > question.  It made a complete listing of the C: to
> /tmp/foo but every
> > file was 0 bytes.
> >
> > I'm trying:
> >   scanner -S 2937736961 /dev/nst1 |
> /usr/lib/nsr/uasm -rv
> >
> >
> > Which isn't doing anything yet.  The file was
> backed up about a month
> > ago and wasn't corrupt at the time (used since
> then) but now I can't
> > recover it.
> >
> > Any suggestions or other thoughts on how to pull
> this off tape?
> >
> > Thus spake Stan Horwitz (stan AT temple DOT edu):
> >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > >
> > > >  I just recovered a file using "recover -c
> <client> -s <server>" with
> > the
> > > >CLI tool.  When I was looking at the file
> lising in the client it
> > showed
> > > >the file being 5K.  When I actually executed
> the recover it was 0
> > bytes.
> > > >I just got paranoid and did a :
> > > >
> > > >recover -s <server> -S <$SSID> -d /tmp/foo
> > > >
> > > >It made 0 length files for everything on the C:
> but that's it.  Anyone
> > > >ever see this or have any ideas how to get this
> data off the tape, it's
> > > >rather critical?
> > >
> > > Probably, the file was either in use (i.e.,
> locked by Winblows)  or
> > > corrupt at the time it was backed up. NetWorker
> probably had no problem
> > > reading the size of the file (because a file
> lock does not make that
> > info
> > > unavailable), but it could not get the contents
> of the file due to the
> > > lock.
> > >
> > > In all likelihood, the users of that system
> either need to shut down all
> > > their apps when they're finished with them each
> day, or you need to
> > > install an open file manager, such as Legato's
> offering.
> > >
> > > You might be able to get the file from another
> day's backup.
> >
> > :wq!
> >
>
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> > -
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> >                                          @
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> > DISCLAIMER:
> >       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for
> no-one else.
> >
> > Diagnosis: witzelsucht
> >
> > IPv6 = robert AT ipv6.rdlg DOT net
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