Richard Vaughn wrote:

>I am trying to restore a file from an AMANDA backup tape
>that pre-dates the current tape cycle; ie, it's from March
>and the oldest backup amrestore knows about is in April.
>
>Can I get this file off the tape via 'dd'? If so, how?
>Or can I twiddle with the AMANDA database such
>that it recognizes backups earlier than April?
>Or is there another way?
>

Hi Richard,

Yes. This is one nice thing about Amanda. The first file on an Amanda
tape is a 32K record that shows the command line to extract the data
from the tape. You can get this data using dd:

dd if=/dev/tape bs=32k count=1

Good luck,

Steve

>Thanks,
>-Richard Vaughn
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