OK, Question, if I may interlope here...
You say that you can position the tape at the beginning of a fileset? >If you wish to >restore additional file sets, you must position the tape to the beginning of >the appropriate set. For instance, if you wish to restore the 33 fileset you >would change the mt command to read: mt -f <no rewind device> fsf 33 to skip >the amanda header record and the first 32 file sets. How does one know where a particular fileset is on the tape? That is, if I want to restore a backup of ClientX, then I assume that of the many clients backed up to the tape, and there will be a fileset for each client? How then would I know which fileset is ClientX? Or am I misunderstanding? Thanks, B Moro -----Original Message----- From: Wayne Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 7:20 AM To: Monserrat Seisdedos Nu�ez Cc: Amanda-Users (E-mail); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: recovering the information That depends on how you backed it up. Look at the header on the tape: 1. Load the tape on your tape drive 2. Skip the first file set (amanda label) using: mt -f <norewind device> fsf 1 3. Run: dd if=<norewind device> bs=32k On one of my tapes that shows: AMANDA: FILE 20020131 host1 /fs2 lev 0 comp N program /usr/sbin/ufsdump To restore, position tape at start of file and run: dd if=<tape> bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/sbin/ufsrestore -f... - So to restore from that tape, I would: 1. Rewind the tape: mt -f /dev/rmt/2cbn rew (no rewind device is used) 2. mt -f /dev/rmt/2cbn fsf 1 (skip the amanda header; no rewind device is used) 3. dd if=/dev/rmt/2cbn bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/bin/ufsrestore -x -f - You will need to use the appropriate restore command. This one is on a Solaris system. This will only restore the first file set. If you wish to restore additional file sets, you must position the tape to the beginning of the appropriate set. For instance, if you wish to restore the 33 fileset you would change the mt command to read: mt -f <no rewind device> fsf 33 to skip the amanda header record and the first 32 file sets. > > Hello everybody: > how can i recover the information of an amanda tape without the amanda > software?? --- Wayne Richards e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
