On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:46:49AM -0700, Tanniel Simonian wrote: > Hello Group, > > I tend to figure things out on my own fairly quickly, however I can't seem > to figure this problem out. > > I have a tape that I archived on February 25th, 2005. > > My tape cycle is 5 weeks and therefore February 25th has long been gone.
A tapecycle has no units. It is a simple integer, number of tapes in rotation. > > I had stopped backing up this particular host on that date due to > stability issues. However, I need to restore a tar'd file from this tape > off that host. > How do you mean you "archived" that tape? Is that a different archive config? Or did you just pull it out of rotation? Possibly replacing it with another of the same label so amanda thinks it might have been overwritten? > At first I figured that since the tape was old, that the index record has > been rotated or removed. I check /var/lib/amanda/xes/index/brimstone/sdb1 > and noticed that the index file does index exist for that date. Was that a level 0? I wonder if a level 0 is needed for amrecover to work - I don't know the answer. Does it have a list of files? Or might the dump have failed that day? You mentioned some type of stability problems. > If it is not possible to use amrecover at this point, someone one to point > me on how to restore a file from tape that has a combination of zipped > tar's and dumps. Joshua pointed you in the right direction. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
