I was trying to restore a backup without the Amanda, here's what I did: # mt rewind # mt fsf 1 # dd if=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=32k skip=1 | tar xvf - (it's backed up by gtar)
It seems like I got all the saved files/directories, which were being extracted.. but they were organized differently. The diretories it created looked like: 7550524305 7450414032 So, basically, a file looked like '74550524305 7550414032 /./scripts/driver' Each file has this preceeding directory. It's hard, if not impossible to access these directories to retrieve the files that I wanted. I tried not to '| tar xvf -', instead '> tarfile', and it still showed the same results by viewing the tarfile through 'tar -tvf'. Here is a little background information: -Backup Server, Solaris 8, Amanda 2.4.2-p2 -Client, FreeBSD 4.5, Amanda 2.4.2-p2 -Tape, DLT IV - both are using Gnu-tar, downloaded the source, and compiled on the server/client. Does anyone know anything about this? Thanks. -andy
