Have you considered that the file in question might be split across volumes? Tried starting from the previous one?
On 26 Nov 2010 17:26, <
stinga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> G'day all,
>
> We have an 8 tape LTO3 storage loader
> We are using tar to backup to it...
>
> tar -v -F/spider_eye/backup/bin/
change_tape.pl -cf /spider_eye/backup/
> dev/6474_tape --totals --index-file=/spider_eye/backup/log/
> Sunday_2010-10-29:21:00:00_full_tar.idx --exclude-from=/spider_eye/
> backup/full_exclude.lst /bod >/spider_eye/backup/log/
> Sunday_2010-10-29:21:00:00_full_tar.log 2>&1
>
> It works find and we can restore OK. (sort of)
>
> We just needed to restore one file it was on tape 4 of 9.
> So I stuck the required tape in and...
>
>
>
> tigger:/restore# tar -Mxf /backup/dev/tape0 bod/SANY0076.MP4
> tar: bod/data/Tmp/end.avi: Cannot extract -- file is continued from
> another volume
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: bod/SANY0076.MP4: Not found in archive
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>
> I cannot get past the fact that the file end.avi on on the tape prior
> to this one and this tape.
> As far as I can tell I should be able to restore from one tape because
> the each tape is an indvidual tar archive.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
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