Networker

Re: [Networker] Recovered file is 0 bytes?

2003-04-29 12:09:35
Subject: Re: [Networker] Recovered file is 0 bytes?
From: "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris AT RDLG DOT NET>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:59:28 -0400
Is it supported in 7.0?

Thus spake Matts Nilsson (matts_nilsson AT YAHOO DOT COM):

>  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
> > > ?:  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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Robert L. Harris                     | PGP Key ID: E344DA3B
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      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.

Diagnosis: witzelsucht

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