On Monday 31 January 2005 11:40, Kevin Alford wrote: >I am getting the following error. I have found my data. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] /class_saa/restore]# dd if=/dev/rmt1.1 bs=32k skip=1 > | /usr/bin/gzip -dc | usr/sbin/restore -f... - >-bash: usr/sbin/restore: A file or directory in the path name does > not exist. >1+0 records in. >1+0 records out. > >I am stumped?
Probably not, it looks as if the target directory doesn't exist, so you may have to do a mkdir for the root dir of each DLE/file before you unpack them. >Kevin D. Alford > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 11:16 AM >To: [email protected] >Cc: Kevin Alford >Subject: Re: Amanda server crashed!!! > >On Monday 31 January 2005 06:30, Kevin Alford wrote: >>My Amanda backup server crashed, and I had to rebuild it. I was >>running Amanda 2.4.2p2 on AIX 5.1 ML6. >>I desperately need to restore the data from my Amanda tapes, but I >>don't have the Amanda index files. >>Isn't there a way I can use native Unix to read and restore my >> tapes written by Amanda? >>Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated. > >Sure, use mt to rewind the tape, starting with a tape thats at least > a dumpcycle old. dd the label block out to verify the correct > starting tape, then dd the next block, both of these to stdout, and > follow the directions in the 2nd block to recover the first file to > scratch storage. dd the next block to stdout to get the > instructions again as it may change from file to file depending on > your use of software compression. > >Repeat as required, moving stuff from scratch to where it goes until >you've recovered it all. You'll be a day or so I expect unless you > feel confident and cd to the target dir the next file came from, > thereby saving you the trouble of moving all that stuff from > scratch storage. > >One of the things I do here, over and above what amanda does, is to > make a tarball of both the amanda config directory's contents, and > the indice directory's contents, and append them to the tape every > night after the amdump run is finished and any file locks amdump > may have had on things, causeing that file to be missing in the > backup, have been removed so I get the whole maryann. > >This may require a reduction in the specified tapesize in your > tapetype in order to make sure amanda saves room for them. This is > done by the wrapper script that cron calls, and which then does the > amdump, followed by this extra stuff so that the end of the tape > actually has the indice and config files on it that wrote *that* > tape. > >Currently my scripts have been simplified considerable by liberal > use of the comment character as I'm now useing vtapes on a big hard > drive, but anyone who'd like a copy of them is welcome. The > comments, and variable useage should be grokable by someone > familiar with bash scripts. > >But, by the use of these, I can lose a drive, reinstall the current > os in bare bones mode, and almost any version of amanda in the > 2.4.5 series, use dd to recover those last 2 files, and then have > all of amanda's facilities to do the rest of the recovery. That of > course is if the drive lost isn't the new 200GB I'm using for the > vtape storage. > >:) >: >>Kevin D. Alford > >-- >Cheers, Gene >"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >-Ed Howdershelt (Author) >99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com >attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett > are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
