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Title: Unable to restore from LAN USB disk
Post by: pso on September 24, 2008, 08:25:42 AM

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

Title: Re: Unable to restore from LAN USB disk
Post by: cabletastic on September 24, 2008, 10:48:20 AM

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.....

Title: Re: Unable to restore from LAN USB disk
Post by: pso on September 24, 2008, 10:57:01 AM

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

Title: Re: Unable to restore from LAN USB disk
Post by: pso on September 24, 2008, 11:18:43 AM

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

Title: Re: Unable to restore from LAN USB disk
Post by: cabletastic on September 24, 2008, 01:05:11 PM

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?

Title: Re: Unable to restore from LAN USB disk
Post by: pso on September 24, 2008, 01:13:27 PM

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

Title: Re: Unable to restore from LAN USB disk
Post by: pso on September 24, 2008, 03:24:25 PM

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

Title: Re: Unable to restore from LAN USB disk
Post by: cabletastic on September 24, 2008, 04:25:39 PM

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?

Title: Re: Unable to restore from LAN USB disk
Post by: pso on September 25, 2008, 09:43:37 PM

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

/Peter

Title: Re: Unable to restore from LAN USB disk
Post by: piran on September 26, 2008, 01:59:23 AM

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

Title: Re: Unable to restore from LAN USB disk
Post by: pso on September 26, 2008, 07:18:15 AM

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