Hello,
I setup Amanda for the first time and there is problem with amrecover. Only some of the directories and files dumped to the tape are listed in amrecover. The index files looks strange:
07664670563/./ 07664670563/./.ICAClient/ 07664670563/./.acrobat/ 07664670563/./.b3tools/ 07664670563/./.dt/ 07664670563/./.dt/Desktop/ 07664670563/./.dt/Trash/ 07664670563/./.dt/appmanager/ 07664670563/./.dt/help/ . . .
Entries in the index file without these numbers can be listed in amrecover.
The first dump of this user disk was a level 0 dump with GNUTAR and the capacity of the tape was sufficient, so everthing is dumped to the tape, but I cannot restore it.
HINT: you are using a bad version of tar. If you believe you have a good version...be sure that you configured amanda with-gnutar=/your/path/to/non-sucky/tar. As an extra hint, you can tell by looking at the config.cache file and see what your ac_cv_path_GNUTAR entry is.
If you are desperate to amrecover something from this dump, let me know...I may still have my notes on how to clean up this index mess and still recover from it. I have done it before thanks to help from John Jackson.
If you do still have the notes, please post them to the list so they can be archived. I'm sure others will run into the same problem someday (I know I did when I started with Amanda, fortunately I never had to restore from them before I got all the tars upgraded), and it would be helpful to have some notes on how to recover with bad index files.
Frank
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