On Friday 16 April 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:
>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.
>
Ping!
--
Cheers, Gene
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