[ale] Display list of Amanda archive contents

[Frederick N. Brier]

J.D.,

file came back with "AMANDA  dump file" and the time stamp.  So just for 
giggles I googled on that exact string and came up with 5 results.  The 
last one (in German) had the following dd command:

dd if=<amanda-backup-file> bs=32k skip=1 of=<output-filename.tar.gz>

That works.  Thank you.  And the excludes on the backup were working, 
but I had missed excluding the .m2/repsository directory and the 
generated javadoc and site directories.  I was wondering why the backup 
was 300MB...

Fred

On 08/02/2010 11:27 PM, J. D. wrote:
> Hey Fred,
>
> What is the output if you run the file command on the archive?
>
>
>
> On 8/2/10, Frederick N. Brier<fnbrier at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> 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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