Hi again...
I've tried to get around what appears to be an incompatibility between
gnu-tar and toms-tar (pax?) by creating a version of gnutar that's
statically linked so I can use it with the libc5 stuff, and putting it
on a separate floppy. I then mount this floppy on /mnt/floppy, my hard
disk on /mnt/hda5, and try (yet again...) to restore my amanda backup,
which is stored as a gnutar file (which I have separately verified by
restoring it under my working system).
Now, for the first time (I'll take the silver lining where I can find
it, and call that a success!), I can actually restore some files from my
backup tape over the network to my laptop.
However, I get several messages during the restore like the following:
eth0: Interrupted while interrupts are masked! isr=0x2 imr=0x0
Sometimes the isr number (interrupt status register?) is set to 0x1. To
check this, I swapped my 100Mbps connection with a 10Mbps one, to make
sure that it wasn't simply a problem of the data moving faster than the
software could handle it. I didn't think would be a problem, and in fact
it wasn't. I still got the same error, albeit at different points in
the restoration. What does it mean?
gnutar (remember, I'm actually using gnutar now) is still giving me the
spurious directory I was getting before; instead of restoring to
/home/price/nsmail/Inbox, for instance, it's restoring to
07335654404/./home/price/nsmail/Inbox. I have no idea what this number
is supposed to represent. The number itself ranges from 06113053557 to
07340530310, if that means anything to someone.
When I do the restoration under my working system, these numbers do not
appear. I am at a loss to explain this.
Thanks in advance for any help,
John
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