I’d love to be proven wrong, but we
looked into this a while back, and it looks like you can’t recovery a
Windows NBU backup on Linux using GNUtar.
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From:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 6:02 AM
To:
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restoring windows
NBU backup to linux/UNIX using GNUtar
I
just saw this in another forum and was curious if anyone has an answer.
It seems likely the E, U, Q, T are probably drive letters from Windows that of
course mean nothing in Linux/UNIX.
NOTE:
The
question is NOT how to do alternate path restore using NBU – it
is
specifically asking can the tape be extracted using GNU-tar on a Linux (Centos
4) box:
The
OP’s Q:
I can
find a tar readable file header using "tar -tvf /dev/tape1 -b 500"
but unfortunatly the directory appears to be corrupted.
I am attempting to recover a windows backup onto centos 4.
I get the following output from tar;
tar: Record size = 128 blocks
?rwx------ / 80 2007-04-21 01:03:40 \001 unknown file type `E'
?rwx------ root/root 0 2007-04-21 01:03:40 /L/ unknown file type `U'
tar: Skipping to next header
?rwx------ root/root 0 2007-04-21 01:03:40 unknown file type `Q'
?rwx------ / 216 2007-04-21 01:03:40 \001 unknown file type `E'
?rwx------ root/root 0 2007-04-20 23:30:00 /L/Backups Database/ unknown file
type `U'
tar: Skipping to next header
?rwx------ root/root 0 2007-04-20 23:30:00 unknown file type `Q'
?rwx------ root/root 268386 2007-04-20 09:00:00 \001 unknown file type `T'
?rwx------ root/root 0 2007-04-20 09:00:00 unknown file type `Q'
?rwx------ root/root 727 2007-04-17 15:00:03 \001 unknown file type `T'
?rwx------ root/root 0 2007-04-17 15:00:03 unknown file type `Q'
?rwx------ root/root 32563712 2007-04-20 21:18:49 \001 unknown file type `T'
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
