On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 at 1:35pm, Kurt Yoder wrote
> Will this work with indexed backups? I tried restoring an indexed
> backup, but got a bunch of strange directories with one file in each of
> them (directory names like "00016345 000354100"). Or maybe one only
> needs the toc file?
An "indexed" backup is simply one for which amanda keeps a table of
contents (or index) on the backup server, for use with amrecover. If you
don't turn on indexing or the index disk dies, you can generate/recover
the index using dump/restore or tar with the appropriate options.
The problem above looks like what happens with known bad versions of
GNUtar. What version of tar are you using? IIRC, 1.13.17 is the minimum
needed to generate a good index.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
