Hello, I have setup Amanda server ( 2.4.2-p2) on Redhat Linux 7.2 with 10 Amanda clients running on Redhat 5.1 -> 7.2. Backups and restores with Amanda utilities work really fine. Backups are tar compressed on client side;
I have tried a "bare level" restoration from a boot disk using this command: # scp -n mybackupserver ' amrestore -p /dev/ntape 192.168.0.100 /boot' | tar -xvf - Amanda finds the archive on the tape and writes it to standard output. The standard output is piped to my local tar program. The problem is that tar extraction creates a lot of unexepected directories like "072315522404" or "07345503322" ... in which i can find the content of my tar file. I supposed that it is because the tar program on my boot disk is not a Gnu tar. The boot disk i use is tomrstbt and i have also tried with Redhat 7.2 rescue disk => same problem. Is it a known issue ? Any idea how i could fix it? Have you ever tried bare level restoration on Linux with Amanda? Should i use another boot disk and which one? I was wondering if it was possible to use remote tar ( the one on my Amanda server) with scp command to extract files locally. Thanx in advance for your answers, Luc
