Jon LaBadie said: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:46:49AM -0700, Tanniel Simonian wrote: >> Hello Group, >> >> I tend to figure things out on my own fairly quickly, however I can't >> seem >> to figure this problem out. >> >> I have a tape that I archived on February 25th, 2005. >> >> My tape cycle is 5 weeks and therefore February 25th has long been gone. > > A tapecycle has no units. > It is a simple integer, number of tapes in rotation. > >> >> I had stopped backing up this particular host on that date due to >> stability issues. However, I need to restore a tar'd file from this tape >> off that host. >> > > How do you mean you "archived" that tape? Is that a different > archive config? Or did you just pull it out of rotation? > Possibly replacing it with another of the same label so > amanda thinks it might have been overwritten? > Pulled the tape out of rotation and placed a new tape with the same label.
>> At first I figured that since the tape was old, that the index record >> has >> been rotated or removed. I check >> /var/lib/amanda/xes/index/brimstone/sdb1 >> and noticed that the index file does index exist for that date. > > Was that a level 0? I wonder if a level is needed for amrecover > to work - I don't know the answer. Yes the tape is a level 0. > > Does it have a list of files? Or might the dump have failed that day? > You mentioned some type of stability problems. > The instability did not affect the backups of that particular machine. The instability was due to old hardware and the proactive need to replace it. >> If it is not possible to use amrecover at this point, someone one to >> point >> me on how to restore a file from tape that has a combination of zipped >> tar's and dumps. > > Joshua pointed you in the right direction. Yes, thanks for the point. I was able to find the correct tape file and restore all the files from the tape. Then grabbed what I needed and deleted the rest. Not as elegant as the interactive amrestore or amrecover, but it got the job done. Thanks for the responses. > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) > >
