On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:55:04AM +0200, Luc Dewavrin wrote: > 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?
In a very limited sample (one) I had a tape created by a bad gnutar version. Reading back with the same tar gave results similar to yours. I had a good gnutar version available and that was able to read the tape. Perhaps you could be so luckey that installing a good gnutar version will let you recover cleanly. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
