I have figured out the problem. The index for this problem filesystem (/www) has 99.9999999% of its entries preceeded by a string of numbers, like:
10010135161/./www/httpd/htdocs/info/mrmsd/cgi-bin/source.C_mainly.d/c/backup/1997102919_nph-sss.c.gz 10010134067/./sol8/pack.d/netscape_patches/108528-16/FJSVhea/reloc/usr/platform/sun4us/include/sys/machcpuvar.h
then is has a very few lines that look normal, like:
/www/httpd/htdocs/info/faculty/reilly/mrmsd/cgi-bin/source.C_mainly.d/c/backup/1997102919_nph-sss.c.gz
Only the normal lines are showing up. Two questions:
What is prepending this string of numbers and why? Wrong version of tar on the Solaris box perhaps? *looks* tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
If I were to take the index file, make a copy, strip the numbers and /./ out of the copy, and put it in place, would that work? (Writing some perl to find out, so this is somewhat of a rhetorical question. :-)
Thanks, Fran
Yeah, something else is going on... the file was never deleted, it's still there, I just accidentally blew over the new version with the old. Yes, it defaults to today if you don't explicitly set the date, and the file was definitely there today (and every day before it for many, many months), so I -should- be seeing it. And then I did go back and look at the index, and also set the date to the day of the full backup, and neither of those enabled me to see the file. Weird, eh?
Client is Solaris, Server is RH9 linux, Amanda is 2.4.4p2, if that's a helpful clue. Color me baffled.
-Fran
Frank Smith wrote:--On Friday, February 13, 2004 16:13:10 -0600 Fran Fabrizio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am trying to restore a file from my web document root. This is an area that's been very static (except for today when I blew on top of something I shouldn't have :-) I went to run amrecover, and it's only showing files that have changed recently.
For example:
/www /htdocs /staticarea /news /studentpages /joeuser
Ok, so my disklist is set to backup /www. None of these are symlinks or anything out of the ordinary. So I run amrecover, and starting at /www, what I see is...
amrecover> ls 2004-02-13 htdocs/ amrecover> cd htdocs /www/htdocs amrecover> ls 2004-02-13 studentpages/ amrecover> cd studentpages /www/htdocs/studentpages amrecover> ls 2004-02-13 joeuser/ /www/htdocs/studentpages/joeuser amrecover> ls 2004-02-13 filejoeuserchangedrecently.html amrecover>
Am I not understanding how amrecover works? Shouldn't I be seeing all the files in that area? I want to restore /www/htdocs/staticarea/news/page.html, how do I go about this?
You should be seeing all the files as of the last backup. I think it defaults to today if you don't use setdate. Perhaps the missing files were deleted before the last backup. If so, just use setdate to go back in time until you find them.
Am I having a stupid Friday afternoon moment, or is this messed up? Did my index get hosed or something?
If you know the files were still there during the last backup, perhaps your index files are corrupt (most likely due to a bad [ < 1.13.19 ?] version of tar). Look at your index files on the server for that client and see if there are big numbers in front of the paths. If so, it is the tar problem. You can still restore the files, it will just take extra work (a lot of it if you have a large directory tree) to rename all the directories after the restore. If the index files look ok, something else is going on. Frank
-Fran
-- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama - Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (205) 934-0653
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Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama - Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (205) 934-0653
Fran Fabrizio
Senior Systems Analyst
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama - Birmingham
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(205) 934-0653
