Hello everybody, since some time I've been testing amanda-3.3.0 but I'm still experiencing some troubles with using amrestore.
First of all: Backups to virtual tapes do run fine and extracting backups via dd if=/backup/tapepools/DailySet/DailySet-15/00010.MYCLIENT._var_lib_amanda.0 bs=32k skip=1 |gzip -dc |tar xvf - ./ as specified in the header of the tapefile brings the correct and expected result. However, when I try to use amrestore the way I used to run in amanda-version < 3.0.0, the command ends with some error messages I do not understand. For example: backup@MYSERVER:/backup/tapes/raid001/test$ amrestore -p /backup/tapepools/DailySet/DailySet-15/00001.MYCLiENT._etc_amanda.0 | tar xvf - ./ Reading from '/backup/tapepools/DailySet/DailySet-15/00001.MYCLIENT._etc_amanda.0' split dumpfile: date 20110801003001 host MYCLIENT disk /etc/amanda part 1/UNKNOWN lev 0 comp .gz program /bin/tar filter stderr: filter stderr: gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file ERROR: /bin/gzip exited with status 1 tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: .: Not found in archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors The tar-errors are follow-ups of the original gzip error, I guess, after googling some, I did not really find some threads or solutions to solve this problem, maybe I'm missing something? Do I have to use some other options? I tried -h and some other stuff, but it didn't work :/ Testing the tapefile on a system with the old c-based amrestore, restoring works just fine, so I don't think the reason is the tapefile. I know that I can still use dd but actually I was quite happy with amrestore, so I'd like to keep for my automated restores :) If you need some more information please feel free to ask /Michael -- Michael Müskens Rule #18: It's better to seek forgiveness than ask permission.
