ifg you read carefully what amrecover tells you you will se 2 bad things: (see below)
nejat onay erkose schrieb:
Hello Again,
I sent this email before but i couldn't get the answer or I didnt understand what I have read well and therefore still have the same kind of problem
To summarize, I have 15 virtual tapes and I just want to extract a few files from one of these tapes (just testing amanda,yet).
However, I got the below message (I understood that it tells me to load the tape test12 but it is already virtual so It is automatic I guess).
Anyone,has an idea about what to be done in this case?It might me something very simple but since I am a new learner of Amanda I couldn't find the problem
Thank you.
"""Extracting files using tape drive /dev/null on host localhost.
2 bad things in one line: 1.) it try's to use "/dev/null" as tapedevice, which is shurely not what you want and the biggest problem, as it can never give you real data. there is somewhere a big misconfiguration in your amanda.conf, but without more details (OS, amanda-version, self-compiled or not, the contents of your amanda.conf ....e.t.c.) noone will be able to tell you where the problem is.
2.) you use localhost in your configuration as name for your server. this is one of the no-no's with amanda. always use the "fully qualified domain name" aka FQDN as the hostname of your computers.
Christoph
Load tape test12 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? Y EOF, check amidxtaped.<timestamp>.debug file on localhost. amrecover: short block 0 bytes UNKNOWN file amrecover: Can't read file header extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 Continue [?/Y/n/r]?"""