On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Tim Johnson J. <[email protected]> wrote: > > Silly question that I am sure someone has seen, > but I could not see an answer on the wiki's for. > > While doing a restore of the backups for a windows machine > (backup via the zmanada client install) the restore fails with > a /bin/tar.exe error. > > In the header of the backup AMANDA: FILE it specifies "/bin/tar.exe -f -" > without the "x" option: > > dd if=<tape> bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip -dc | /bin/tar.exe -f - ... > > > > > I can take the backup via command line and extract the file by adding > the "x" to the tar command.
Windows client uses zip format. This command will not work. Please follow directions from http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Zmanda_Windows_Client#Restoring_files_to_the_Windows_client Paddy > Is there any options on the client (2.5.1.2) to change it to allow using > the "x" tar option so the backups of the windows machine will function with > amrestore. > > > Thanks for any input. > -- Amanda http://amanda.zmanda.com ZRM for MySQL http://www.zmanda.com/backup-mysql.html
