On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Florian Lengyel > <[email protected]> wrote: > They have had to recover by hand -- see below (there was a disk crash of some kind, but I have been unable to elicit precise details). See below for errors > > AMANDA: SPLIT_FILE 20100222 guass.engr.ccny.cuny.edu /home1/skgottipati > > part 8/ > > 11 lev 0 comp cust program /bin/tar client_custom_compress /bin/bzip2 > > To restore, position tape at start of file and run: > > dd if=<tape> bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/bzip2 -d | /bin/tar -xpGf - > > Wait, why do they need to do restores by hand? Are they unable to use > amrecover? Amfetchdump? Even amrestore? > > Dustin > > -- > Open Source Storage Engineer > http://www.zmanda.com > These were failing -- here's a quote from an email amadmin DailySet3 find Generate the outputs below and hangs....... Warning: no log files found for tape DailySet3-013 written 2010-03-01 Warning: no log files found for tape DailySet3-012 written 2010-03-01 Warning: no log files found for tape DailySet3-011 written 2010-02-25 Warning: no log files found for tape DailySet3-010 written 2010-02-25 Warning: no log files found for tape DailySet3-09 written 2010-02-25 Warning: no log files found for tape DailySet3-08 written 2010-02-25 Warning: no log files found for tape DailySet3-07 written 2010-02-25 Warning: no log files found for tape DailySet3-06 written 2010-02-22 Warning: no log files found for tape DailySet3-05 written 2010-02-22 Also ERRORS The following are the errors I get so far trying to recover these 3 directories...(using amrecover) for grossberg, No index records for disk for specified date (nor earlier dates, I tried) for glasslab/skgottipati , Extracting files using tape drive @DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE@ on host guass.engr.ccny.cuny.edu. Load tape DailySet03-025 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? Y Volume labeled 'DailySet03-025' not found. Load tape DailySet03-025 now Continue [?/Y/n/d]? Y Not an amanda tape: Can't open tape device @DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE@: No such file or directory Load tape DailySet03-025 now With Amrestore, I get the error Got no header and data from server Also, i have tried amarchiver --list --file 00001.guass.engr.ccny.cuny.edu._home1_skgottipati.0 amar_read: Invalid archive header Note:- This tape exist and it seems to contain some form of data in it.
