Hello,
I have been using amanda without any problems for a while. I used to use
dump but have switched to gnutar for dumps that are larger then the tape
(ie using a more granular technique of direcotory partitioning )
Now, it dumps fine, but i cannot recover the data that was archived via
dump or gtar . I get the following error (for both gtarred and sumped
disks):
[root@fiji /tmp/tar 899]$ amrestore -p /dev/nrst0 fiji /u3/mgmt | restore
ivbf 32 -
amrestore: short file header block: 2048 bytes
amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset
amrestore: 0: reached end of tape: date Q
Verify tape and initialize maps
End-of-tape encountered
Tape is not a dump tape
note the tape is rewinded and "dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1"
AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE 20011130 TAPE normal-012
the tape is good, ie it worked before i started using tar. from what i
gather from the archives alot there are those who encountered these errors
with gtar, but the seemed solved... now how do i go about it?
thanks, in advance for any help...
-Hussain
***** my environment:
netbsd 1.5
gtar 1.12
amanda 2.4.2.p2
***** relevent amanda.conf:
define dumptype mydir-nocompress {
comment "Mydir compress dump type"
compress none
program "GNUTAR"
index yes
}
**** relevant inetd.conf
amanda dgram udp wait backup /usr/pkg/libexec/amandad amandad
amandaidx stream tcp nowait backup /usr/pkg/libexec/amindexd amindexd
amidxtape stream tcp nowait backup /usr/pkg/libexec/amidxtaped amidxtaped
***** screen shot (trying to to recover file that was "dump"ed not
***** "tar"ed)
amrecover> add dmesg.boot
Added /var/run/dmesg.boot
amrecover> extract
Extracting files using tape drive /dev/st0 on host fiji.agiservices.com.
The following tapes are needed: normal-012
Restoring files into directory /tmp/tar
Continue? [Y/n]: y
Load tape normal-012 now
Continue? [Y/n]: y
Dec 3 11:19:47 fiji inetd[14799]: connection from fiji.agiservices.com,
service amidxtape (tcp)
Dec 3 11:19:48 fiji /netbsd: isp0: Bus 1 Target 3 at 10MHz Max Offset 8
EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on fiji.agiservices.com.
amrecover: short block 0 bytes
UNKNOWN file
amrecover: Can't read file header
extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
Continue? [Y/n]: n
amrecover> quit
** /tmp/amanda/amidxtaped
amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 14799 ruid 32770 euid 32770 start time Mon Dec 3
11:19:47 2001
amidxtaped: version 2.4.2.p2
> SECURITY USER root
bsd security: remote host fiji.agiservices.com user root local user backup
amandahosts security check passed
> 6
amrestore_nargs=6
> -h
> -p
> /dev/st0
> fiji
> ^wd0a$
> 20011130
Ready to execv amrestore with:
path = /usr/pkg/sbin/amrestore
argv[0] = "amrestore"
argv[1] = "-h"
argv[2] = "-p"
argv[3] = "/dev/st0"
argv[4] = "fiji"
argv[5] = "^wd0a$"
argv[6] = "20011130"
amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20011130 label normal-012
amrestore: missing file header block
amrestore: 1: reached end of tape: date 20011130
amidxtaped: amrestore terminated normally with status: 1
Rewinding tape: done
amidxtaped: pid 14799 finish time Mon Dec 3 11:19:53 2001
