On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:26:52AM -0700, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > 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?
Yes once I've seen the files restored I've always killed amrecover. > > I would recommend using 'amfetchdump' for the same dumpfile, and > examining the resulting tarfile. I assume this will require space the size of the DLE? (in my case 2T) > > Dustin > > -- > Open Source Storage Engineer > http://www.zmanda.com
