At 09:22 AM 12/5/2001, Hussain Ali wrote: >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 your amrestore line. You're piping the image from tape into "restore". As in dump's counterpart. As in NOT tar. You need to use restore to restore dump images, and tar to restore tar images. [...] >-Hussain [...] Cheers. Darin Dugan System Administrator Iowa State University Extension [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.extension.iastate.edu
