On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Mark Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > I've determined that when I try to retrieve files from the 2nd tape in > my set it won't work. Tar crashes out with the helpful error "due to previous > errors" -- no errors show before this apart from tar skipping to the > next tape. Retrieves from the first tape work fine.
Hmm, that's odd, because as far as tar is concerned, there aren't separate tapes - just a single datastream. Even when recovering a file only on the first tape, amrecover will still read the entire dumpfile (and thus require the second tape). I assume that you've seen files recovered successfully before you swapped to the second tape. In that case, did you kill amrecover after getting the desired files? If not, did it finish reading the second tape without error? I would recommend using 'amfetchdump' for the same dumpfile, and examining the resulting tarfile. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
