>i have a weekly cycle of tapes (full backup 7 days a week) and once a
>month i swap out friday's tape. so this means i have two copies of
>friday's tape, one on site in the cycle, and one off site.
What's special about a tape from a Friday? Did you tell Amanda to do
a full dump of everything to it? If not, and it's just any old tape
in the cycle, it could have most anything on it, i.e. some full dumps,
some incrementals, and there is no way to predict what the mix will be.
>i have never had to pull anything off of the older offsite tape, but now i
>do, and i don't quite know how. the last time this tape was written was
>many weeks ago, but in amanda's database, the tape is from last week.
>obviously the tape i have is not from last week, but how do i make amanda
>think realize this?
What, exactly, are you trying to do? Are you trying to use amrecover?
Or do you know what you want and you just need to run amrestore and pull
off an image?
If you're trying to use amrecover, you would have had to have saved
all the index files. It's highly unlikely you did that. So I think
you're probably going to have to use amrestore and pipe that into your
restore program and work from there. It would be something like this:
amrestore -p $TAPE <the-host> <the-disk> \
| gunzip \
| the-restore-program ...
If the image is not compressed, leave out the gunzip step.
If your restore program does not have an interactive mode (e.g. GNU tar),
you'll probably need to do this twice, once to get a new catalogue and
once to do the recovery.
>brian
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
