Topic: Unable to restore from LAN USB disk

[pso]

I'm unable to make a restore from my USB disk, even a verify won't work, i get the following:

Aborting program. User refused to continue while asking: The format version of the archive is too high for that software version, try reading anyway?

what does it mean? e-smiht can see all 5 backup set on the disk but fail to restore.

It's on a new freshly installation.

/Peter

[cabletastic]

What format are the backup sets in? Are they standard tar files? If so I would tar them out somewhere else and then copy the data back to the correct place - bit longwinded but it gets you there in the end.....

[pso]

They are en dar!
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 734003200 Sep 19 07:44 full-20080919.10.dar

[pso]

I can make a new backup and verify it's ok, but i can't read the old one!

it says error reading:/media/usbdisk1/pastinak.pastinak.dk/set0/full-20080919

/Peter

[cabletastic]

Can you read/write to the USB disk in question and are you logged in as admin?
If you look in /etc/fstab does it show the disk mounted as rw or ro?

[pso]

I'm logged in as admin and can write to the disk:
 cp install.log /media/usbdisk1/

 ls -l /media/usbdisk1/
total 3235436
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root        23922 Sep 24 13:10 install.log

from fstab:

/dev/sda1               /media/usbdisk1         ext3    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

/Peter

[pso]

hmm, it's pointing at : /media/usbdisk1/pastinak.pastinak.dk/set2/full-20080822

ls -l /media/usbdisk1/pastinak.pastinak.dk/set2/full-20080822
ls: /media/usbdisk1/pastinak.pastinak.dk/set2/full-20080822: No such file or directory
ls -l /media/usbdisk1/pastinak.pastinak.dk/set2/full-20080822*
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 734003200 Aug 22 15:56 /media/usbdisk1/pastinak.pastinak.dk/set2/full-20080822.10.dar
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 734003200 Aug 22 16:14 /media/usbdisk1/pastinak.pastinak.dk/set2/full-20080822.11.dar
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 734003200 Aug 22 16:32 /media/usbdisk1/pastinak.pastinak.dk/set2/full-20080822.12.dar
and so on

/peter

[cabletastic]

OK...odd. Seeing as though you can read the files see if you can copy them off that volume onto another and try restoring from there?

[pso]

Anyone who can help me with the commands so i can do a manually restor from the command line interface ?

/Peter

[piran]

I've just been through a disaster recovery;~/
Most of it worked OK though;~)
I saw that mysterious higher version thing.
Was similarly puzzled - still am - but things to fix.
However if you carefully read the DAR2 wiki stuff...
http://wiki.contribs.org/DAR2
...and follow the command line stuff at the bottom
you'll find that the command line edition allows you
to input your agreement with the 'Try It Anyway'
premise. I found it worked fine for me. YMMV
(using a LAN NAS box and not LAN USB disk)
----best wishes, Robert

[pso]

Problem solved or allmost, a clean install on an other maschine was able
the read and restore.

I'm doing a low level format of rthe old disk and try again.

Thanks all !


/Peter