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| --- This text was originally contributed to the AMANDA-FAQ-O-Matic by [email protected]. --- | | #REDIRECT [[Amrecover: wildcard characters in filenames]] |
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| If you have backed up files with shell metacharacters as part of the filename, and you are using Gnu tar as part of your Amanda backup process, you may notice that you can no longer pull the files out. The symptoms are:
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| amrecover> add *asid=\[101\]*
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| Added /joe_asid=[101].gz
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| amrecover> extract
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| Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host xyz.com.
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| The following tapes are needed: big1
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| Restoring files into directory /tmp
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| Continue? [Y/n]: y
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| Load tape big1 now
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| Continue? [Y/n]: y
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| tar: ./joe_asid=[101].gz: Not found in archive
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| tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
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| The solution can be one of a number of things:
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| 1. Try to make Gnu tar treat shell metacharacters
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| (like [ and ] and *) as normal characters. I'm not sure this is possible, and I haven't tried.
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| 2. Edit the amrecover source code to make it escape shell metacharacters.
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| 3. Use amrestore instead of amrecover so that you can escape the filenames you're interested in, eg:
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| $ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
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| $ amrestore -p /dev/nst0 \
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| hostname.myowncompany.com \
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| /backed/up/directory | tar -xvf - '*\[101\]*'
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| Or more specifically, the value you could pass to Gnu tar would be:
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| 'joe_asid\[101\].gz'
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