My problem has been resolved. I would like to take the time to say thank you to Jon LaBadie. He was very persistent in getting me the help I needed to resolve my problem. This is a summary Of my situation. I had Amanda 2.4.2p2 on AIX 5.1 ML6 working fine, when my system crashed and Had to be rebuilt from scratch. I work with developers, and they "MUST GET SOME OF THERE CODE" >From those tapes, but I didn't have the indexes anymore (I should of gathered that information During my mksysb backups). Following instructions I received after submitting my problem to this User group, I pulled this information from tape:
AMANDA: FILE 20041208 lightning /saa_dev lev 1 comp .gz program /usr/sbin/backup To restore, position tape at start of file and run: dd if=<tape> bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/bin/gzip -dc | usr/sbin/restore -f... - After further correspondence with this group, and Jon LaBadie in particular, I took the following steps to get my data back: dd if=/dev/rmt1.1 of=saabackup bs=32k conv=sync skip=1 (I had to pull the data from tape 1st, AIX didn't like me running the whole command at once) gunzip < saabackup > unzippedsaabackup (I unzipped the file) restore -xvf unzippedsaabackup This restored all the data I needed. Once again, thank you to everyone that helped me during this time of need. Kevin D. Alford
