On Monday 31 January 2005 11:52, Jason Miller wrote: >Try putting a / in front of usr/sbin/restore and see if that helps. > Can I say DUH! I missed that typu.
>Jason > >> From: Kevin Alford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:40:58 -0500 >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]> >> Subject: RE: Amanda server crashed!!! >> >> 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? >> >> >> >> 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.
