Hi All, I've run this backup again with smaller chunks (40Gb, not that this should make a difference?) and it is now saying it can't find anything I try to recover in the archive.
tar: ./path/here/IMG_4254.jpg: Not found in archive tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Why would the file not be in the archive if it is showing in the index? Is there anything else I can try before I try to retrieve the whole DLE? On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 02:57:32PM +0100, Mark Adams wrote: > 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 -- Mark Adams Technical Manager [email protected] . Campbell-Lange Workshop www.campbell-lange.net 0207 6311 555 3 Tottenham Street London W1T 2AF Registered in England No. 04551928
