Eureka! It seems I had a bit of a compound problem. there *was* an issue with the log files, but after I followed your advice and put the logfile back into $logdir, amanda seemed to dislike the fact that the tape wasn't rewound (but didn't bother to report it :/). after doing an mt r and having the log file in the proper location, it worked like a champ. Thank you much Jean and Rebecca!!
--Chris -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jean-Louis Martineau Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:00 PM To: Chris Noon Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: amrecover can't find index files... I found the log file in $logdir/oldlog . I don't know if this oldlog dir was setup by amamda (couldn't find any mention of it in amanda.conf), so I tried moving it back to the logdir. I ran amrecover again and it found the logfile, but still couldn't find the index. amrecover> setdisk c1t6d0s7 200 Disk set to c1t6d0s7. No index records for disk for specified date If date correct, notify system administrator Although, I'm pretty sure I recall getting the no log file warnging before, yet it still finding the index. Are you sure that the log file is a prerequisite for finding the indexes? --Chris On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:14:11PM -0500, Chris Noon wrote: > Hello all, > I'm having a problem restoring from tape. Here's what it spits back: > > amrecover> setdate 2002-01-09 > 200 Working date set to 2002-01-09. > amrecover> sethost host1 > 200 Dump host set to host1. > amrecover> setdisk c1t6d0s7 > Warning: no log files found for tape user-week-3 written 2002-01-09 The index will not be found if the log file is not there? Where is your log file (log.20020109.0)? Jean-Louis > 200 Disk set to c1t6d0s7. > No index records for disk for specified date > If date correct, notify system administrator > > > The file 'host1/c1t6d0s7/20020109_0.gz' does indeed exist in the indexdir as > specified in amanda.conf. I've heard about some versions of tar can screw > up the index file (adding extra numbers to the start of each line), so I > checked and they look fine. > >From 'hots1/c1t6d0s7/20020109_0.gz': > > /rootmail/logsold/585 > /rootmail/logsold/586 > /rootmail/logsold/587 > /rootmail/logsold/588 > /rootmail/logsold/589 > /rootmail/logsold/590 > /rootmail/logsold/591 > /quotas > /coolbay/ > /coolbay/.mail > > I've every thing I can think of, and am running out of options. Any > suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > --Chris -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834