[ale] Display list of Amanda archive contents

[Frederick N. Brier]

I posted this question on the ZManda forums, but unfortunately have not 
received a response.  Perhaps someone on our forum has used Amanda and 
knows what file format Amanda uses.

I installed Amanda on a client and a server, configuring a backup using 
the 15 minute tutorial, although I did not setup the encryption yet. The 
backup appears to work, but I wanted to make sure the exclusions were 
working and the files compressed. I cannot figure out what utility is 
used to display the contents of a backup. The backup disk area contains 
a directory:

    /Backup/space/vtapes/DailySet1/slots/slot1

The amarchiver command does not seem to work.

Code:

bash-4.1$ amarchiver --list --file 00000.DailySet1-01
amar_read: Invalid archive header

bash-4.1$ amarchiver --list --file 00003.ice.mydomain.com._var_lib_hudson.0
amar_read: Invalid archive header

The 00003.ice.mydomain.com._var_lib_hudson.0 file is backed up using a 
dumptype with "user-tar" and "compress client fast". I have also tried 
tar with and without compression, gunzip, bzip2, uncompress. None 
recognize the format. What format are the backups using? How can I list 
the contents? Thank you.

Fred
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