On Thursday 28 March 2002 10:20 pm, Andy Zhang wrote: >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
That sounds like you got the tar src from gnu. Its busted big time. Look around and find a newer version in an rpm, latest is 1.13-25 I think but -19 has been known to work too. Why GNU doesn't either fix it, or remove it from public view has several of us on this list puzzled. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 98.7+% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a hillbilly
