Greets all;
I tried to install the ati driver package for my video card back on the 9th
of April, and have been trying to recover my Fedora 10 install ever since.
That driver install hosed the X11 stuff as their installer went through the
system deleting stuff that would get in the way of its install, and when all
the damage was done, then refused to build a kernel modules for kernel
2.6.34-rc3 which I was running at the time.
So then, thinking most of that would be in /etc/X11 and /usr/share, I sent
amrecover off to restore those two trees.
/etc went just fine, but amrecover got itself into a loop in the middle of
the /usr/share recovery and was so locked up I had to use the reset button.
At that point, the Fedora 10 install was and is un-bootable.
So now I'm running, and gradually getting the warts frozen off,
mandriva-2010-x64, well enough that I should be able to run a locally built
amanda and attempt another recovery.
I have mounted the disk partitions of F10, and copied all the /usr/local/var
amanda stuff to the mandriva's /usr/local/var/amanda, as well as all the
stuff from F10's /usr/local/amanda, and nothing has been written to the
/amandatapes drive since the crash. The files on that drive look ok, but
what do I know.
Anyway, to the recovery attempt, it fails with a 'no log files found' for
every backup file in the last cycle. Since I had my F10/tmp on its own
partition, I mounted that cand copied the /tmp/amanda and /tmp/amanda-dbg
trees to the mandriva install. Didn't help.
I recall I had to do something with the paths used in my gh.cf file as
mandriva didn't have, and ldconfig won't add, anything in the /usr/local tree
regardless of how you add them in the ld.so.conf.d file collection.
So I tried to build it once to be installed in /usr/ instead of /usr/local,
but I have since groked that and put it back in the /usr/local, deleting the
/usr stuffs.
So I tried to recover using the cli command displayed in the header of the
files, just my gh.cf from the last set of level 0's for /home, and due to the
file split used there are two files for the level0 /home backup.
Now, here is the problem (and this is amanda-3.2.0alpha.svn.2897 in use)
[ama...@coyote slot20]$ dd if=00025.coyote._home.0 bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip
-dc | /usr/local/libexec/amanda/application/amgtar restore ./gh.cf
32768+0 records in
32768+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 34.0307 s, 31.6 MB/s
And no indication it found gh.cf in the first file, and it wasn't written to
that directory (slot20) on the amandatapes drive.
Ok, repeat on remainder file:
[ama...@coyote slot20]$ dd if=00026.coyote._home.0 bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip
-dc | /usr/local/libexec/amanda/application/amgtar restore ./gh.cf
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/bin/tar: ./gh.cf: Not found in archive
/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
--
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)
Tomorrow, this will be part of the unchangeable past but fortunately,
it can still be changed today.
