Hi all,
I'm having some weird problems with amrestore. I don't know if its a
problem writing to the tape or recovering from it, nor what I should do
to fix it.
Here's the scoop: I'm running amanda 2.4p2 on a Redhat 7.1 machine using
the included RPM. Before that I had been using 2.4 installed from the
tarball on a Redhat 7.0 machine.
Some of the clients compress their data (client compress fast) and when
I try to restore the data I get the following error:
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
When I use amrestore -c, it restores just fine, but gzip says it has a
bad CRC and won't unzip it.
I can successfully restore backups that were done using tar, but when I
go to untar them, I get the following error, repeated about 200 times:
Skipping to next header
Also, when I untar the files, about 0.1% of the data is scrambled.
If I simply do a dump to the holding disk, then everything is OK and
I can restore the files from the dumps with no problems, leading me to
believe that the problem is getting the data to/from the tape. If I then
do an amflush and then restore the data from the tape, it gives the same
problems as if I had done a normal amdump. Not too surprising, but still
aggravating.
Anyone have anything similar happen to them? Any clues on the problem
is?
Thanks a load,
Matt
