On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 at 1:37pm, ThomasRatliffDDS wrote > Is there any FAQ that describes how to Create an Index file from tape? > No, but I'll give it a shot.
In indexdir (as specified in amanda.conf), there's a directory for each host. In each host's directory, there's a directory for each disk (subbing '_' for '/'). In each disk directory, there's a gzipped index file named by the date of the amanda run and the level, e.g. this morning's level one is 20011212_1.gz. The contents of that file are generated on the fly by the backup program of choice. If, e.g., you use tar, then it's a 'tar t'. Actually, the exact command (from sendbackup*debug) is '/bin/gtar -tf - 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/^\.//' . So, piping each backup image through 'tar t' (or the equivalent for restore) should do it. Remember to skip over the first 32k of each image on tape, as that's the amanda header. Good luck. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
