I have successfully completed a backup but am now trying to figure out the recover portion of the AMANDA program. Afterall, what good is a backup if you can't recover it. Here is my dilemna. I have two computers on a network.. Alpha1 and Intelraid1. Intelraid1 is the server and Alpha1 is the client so I'm trying to run amrecover on Alpha1 obviously. Here is the command I'm running followed by the output
root@alpha1 /]# amrecover -C alpha1 -s intelraid1 -t intelraid1 -d /RAID/alpha1 AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on intelraid1 ... 220 intelraid1 AMANDA index server (2.4.2p2) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to today (2001-12-03) 200 Working date set to 2001-12-03. 200 Config set to alpha1. 200 Dump host set to alpha1.xxx.xxx Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD amrecover> setdisk /dev/sda3 Scanning /RAID/alpha1... 20011121: found Amanda directory. 200 Disk set to /dev/sda3. No index records for disk for specified date If date correct, notify system administrator amrecover> setdisk /dev/sda3 Scanning /RAID/alpha1... 20011121: found Amanda directory. 200 Disk set to /dev/sda3. No index records for disk for specified date If date correct, notify system administrator Ok.. here is the directory listing of /RAID/alpha1 on intelraid1: drwx------ 2 amanda amanda 4096 Dec 3 10:58 20011121 And inside 20011121/ : -rw------- 1 amanda amanda 3925999616 Nov 21 11:12 192.168.1.3._dev_sda3.0 obviously, I just did a dump onto the holding disk here because we have 100 GB of RAID space to utilize so a tape drive just seems pointless. I'm pretty sure indexing is off, I don't know how to turn it on at least. My indexdir in my amanda.conf file is set to /usr/local/etc/amanda/alpha1. Can someone just tell me either (1) how to get this to work like it should or (2) how to use amrestore properly to get this to work? It's not imperative that I use this backup archive. The computer still works great and everything. I just need to make sure I can recover the files properly so if I have to turn on indexing or create another dump.. it's not a problem at all. Thanks for any help. Joseph
