Hi, I had a hard drive crash on my tape server (which was also an nfs server for some media files). I have had a backup of my amanda configs on floppy, so I reinstalled amanda and the configs and I can backup again. But the problem I have is that I lost the media (nfs exports) that I was exporting, but the good thing is they are on backup of a tape from a week ago (they don't change a lot, so I only do a weekly backup of them) The problem I have is not having the original log files, I don't know how to restore or even extract the files from the tape that amanda wrote to. I have tried subscribing to the amanda list, but so far its taken 4 hr and I haven't had a reply from my confirmation email. I have looked on the net and also read through my Unix backup book and found a few explanations, but they seem to cover dump. As I gzipped all the files rather than using dump (in mt amanda config), I'm not sure how to restore the files from the tape. FWI: the tape is a DDS 3 The only thing I found is below, but as that uses restore, AFAIK, that will only restore files that were put on the tape using the dump utility, also If I can use the config below, I cannot workout how to calculate the 'file#' section, as in what value do I put there and how to work it out?. cd /correct_dir_path mt fsf 'file#' dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | gzcat | restore -ivf - Any advise or help would be a god send. Hopefully I've made some sense :) Cheers Mark -- To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
