On Monday 11 November 2002 00:20, Frank Smith wrote: >--On Monday, November 11, 2002 04:36:12 -0500 Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi everybody; [...] >> >> Ideas/hints/elevated noses/scorn/tar for dummys messages ? >> Proper tar syntax, etc ... will be very much appreciated. > >So I assume you've already tried the instructions from the > chapter? What exactly did that result in? The Amanda header > blocks on the tapes should give you the filesystem name and > level, as well as the command needed to do the restore. > >Frank
Got it Frank, and thanks. Turns out the one thing the docs don't say is that if one does a "dd if=/dev/nst0 count=1" to read the header, this leaves the tape in position to do the next "dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k |tar -xzvf -" (remove the z if the header says its not compressed) Its in the middle of recovering about 4 gigs worth of music, mostly oggs of my own cd's. I backed up a dumpcycle worth of tapes and I'm just playing everything back in order. Its amazing how much that recommended "skip=1" in the sample command line can screw you up. Nowhere near a full recovery yet, but at least I'm online... -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.18% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
