Title: Re: amrecover problem: need help/advice
The problem was my scsi card driver.
Reviewing my kernel configuration files, between 2.4.14 and 2.4.15 (now running 2.4.21), I switched to the new sym53c8xx_2 driver. I recompiled my kernel with the older NCR53c7,8xx driver (there is also
try to
read the tape (or chunk - fsf) with dd
dd
if=/dev/nst0 of=/ bs=1024 count=
where
NNN is greater than your backup job/disk entry
and
see what happens
i
restored some valueable tape (MTF formated) reading this way and putting the
pieces together.
regards,
gregor
OK. I can do this. Let me summarize:
I have a tape labeled fea12. This tape like all the tapes if all filesystems were backed up should contain 40 filesystems + front end + back end.
I issued the command
mt -f /dev/tape_norewind fsf 1
42 times before the end of tape occured and I received
Gregor,
Thanks for responding. I also responded back to Gene Heskett with his suggestion and a little more information.
I would like to try this idea. How can I determine from the amanda log files ? Once I output the data from the tape to the drive, how do I conver it back to a .tar
OK. I went to the amdump log file and found that the first file should have 352 1k blocks written to the tape.
Then I issued
mt rewind
mt -f /dev/tape_norewind fsf 1
dd if=/dev/tape_norewind of=./first_file bs=1k count=352
Then the following was received at the console:
dd: reading
OK. I am learning from this. The number of 1k blocks on the first stored file on this tape is actually 384 and not 352. I should have looked at the taper output and not the dumper output. I issue the following multiple times:
mt rewind
mt -f=/dev/tape_norewind fsf 1
dd if=/dev/tape_norewind
On Sunday 20 July 2003 18:31, Freels, James D. wrote:
OK. I am learning from this. The number of 1k blocks on the first
stored file on this tape is actually 384 and not 352. I should have
looked at the taper output and not the dumper output. I issue the
following multiple times:
mt rewind
mt
On Saturday 19 July 2003 10:46, Freels, James D. wrote:
Hello I have used amanda for a long time and have used the amrecover
command to recover files/directories in the past without problems.
Recently, I accidently deleted a large chunk of my home directory
(you don't really want to know how this
