Re: need help urgently!!!

2002-07-21 Thread dirkx
when i run the command amrestore -p /dev/nst0 filezzz /var | tar -cV restore.tar it starts to read through the tape, it finds the directory i'm looking for, but then it stops and i can't get it to put the file on my hard drive, obviously i am running the wrong command can anyone help me out

RE: need help urgently!!!

2002-07-18 Thread Bort, Paul
Without your indexes, amrecover won't know what to do. Find the report(s) you got from the tape(s) you want to restore from. Pick your newest level 0, then find the incrementals that follow it. If your tape drive is /dev/nst0 (common for Linux), you can put the level 0 tape in and start with:

Re: need help urgently!!!

2002-07-18 Thread Carlos White
in regards to my earlier message need help urgently!!! i am able to use amrestore to read the tape, it goes through the various files, however i can't get it to extract anything, when i originally made th tapes i just used plain old compression with tar comp-user-tar or something like that when