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Hi all,

I have kinda inherited this problem, but was wondering if anyone else had any ideas.

Currently all our backup rentention periods are set to 2 weeks, so that we can cycle through tapes (save money etc...). Anyhow the guys next door in IT, decided one day long long ago, that it would be a good idea to do monthly backups. Unfortunatley, they didn't tell us this, and so it has now become a problem.

My question is this. Does anyone know of a way to well, essentially by-pass veritas NBU on a vertias volume managed system, and restore things from tape. I know that I can do this from a VXRESTORE, however its an oracle rman backupset that I am looking to restore and normal file system and I didn't use a vxdump in the first place (well I prosume NBU didn't anyhow).

From an OS point of view under Solaris I managed to find some utilities TCOPY and MT. MT doesn't seem to allow me to do this. However TCOPY seems like a good solution, however, it will only copy from tape to a dir, I prosume the entire tape, and being that we don't really have systems with a 200gig + mount point at the moment, I don't fancy trying it.

Has anyone got any other ideas for something that I use? Ideally I would like to be able to mount the tape and see whats on it, and decided what to restore myself.

thanks,

Mark.
 
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AMREPORT(1)						      General Commands Manual						       AMREPORT(1)

NAME
amreport - generate a formatted output of statistics for an Amanda run SYNOPSIS
amreport [ config ] [ -l logfile ] [ -f outputfile ] [ -p postscriptfile ] DESCRIPTION
Amreport generates a summary report of an amanda(8) backup run. If no configuration name is specified, amanda.conf is read from the cur- rent directory. See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda. OPTIONS
config Name of the configuration to process. [-l logfile] Name of the log file to parse to generate the report. If a log file is not specified, it defaults to the file: logdir/log where logdir is the log directory defined in amanda.conf. [-f outputfile] Normally, amreport sends the report via e-mail to the mailto user as defined in the amanda.conf file. If outputfile is specified, then the report is put in outputfile. [-p postscriptfile] Send the postscript output to the file postscriptfile instead of to the lpr(1) command. This option has an effect only if the lbl- templ directive is specified in amanda.conf. LABEL PRINTING
Amanda can print postscript labels describing the contents of tape(s) written in a run. The labels are designed to be folded and inserted into the tape case along with the tape or hole punched and put in a 3-ring binder. Various label templates are provided to format data for different tape sizes. The information printed varies slightly between label templates due to size constraints. Labels contain one line for each host/file-system pair and may also contain the file number on the tape, the level of the dump, the original size of the dump and the size of the (possibly compressed) tape file. Add the lbl-templ parameter to the tapetype definition in amanda.conf to enable labels. If you don't add this line to your tapetype defi- nition, amreport will not print tape labels. You may use the printer keyword in amanda.conf to print to other than the system default printer. TEMPLATES
Amanda provides label templates for the following tape types. These are pretty generic labels and should be easy to customize for other tape types or particular site needs. * ExaByte 8mm tapes * DAT 4mm tapes * DLT tapes * 3-ring binder The 3-ring binder type is the most generic. It may be used to make a hardcopy log of the tapes. SEE ALSO
amanda(8), amflush(8) AMREPORT(1)