I have a very similar problem. I get no index files produced, so I can't use amrecover. In the FAQ it suggests that I might no have it enabled, but 'index yes' is in my global dumptype. In my first ever dump, the cdirectory I had specified did not exist, so I have since created it by hand.
Whilst a backup runs absolutely fine and I can use amrestore to obtain the tar files from the tapes, amdump is still refusing to create indexes. What trouble-shooting can anyone suggest to track this down? Particularly, I'm not very clear on: How exactly the indexing program gets run? Where I would expect indexing related errors to appear in logs / if I need to enable any debugging to get more information? I'm running 2.4.4p3 on my server and the clients are all 2.4 versions, although they are not all this recent (2.4.4p1 & 2.4.2p2). My old server, running on a different box and version 2.4.2p2 generates indexes without any problems - so I'm guessing that it isn't a client configuration issue. Thanks in advance, Simon -- Simon Hildrew Technical Consultant, Yolus Limited 8 Cole Street, London, SE1 4YH t: (020) 7089 2711 f: (020) 7089 2691 w: http://www.yolus.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Lund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 September 2004 09:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Where is my amgetidx? Running Amanda 2.4.4p2 on a Linux(FC2) box. Tried the RPM, then compiled with the following config to mimic the RPM build: /configure --host=i386-redhat-linux --build=i386-redhat-linux --target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib/amanda --localstatedir=/var/lib --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --with-index-server=xena.atc.no --with-gnutar-listdir=/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists --with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient --with-amandahosts --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-gnutar=/bin/tar --with-config=DailySet1 I have specified define dumptype global { comment "Global definitions" compress server best record yes } Using define dumptype high-pri { global comment "Critical file system" priority high index yes } DLE looks like this xena.atc.no root / high-pri 1 Everything works ok, except I get no index. I see a lot of references to a program named "amgetidx" which as far as I understand should be called by amdump and fetch the index from each target host. But I can't find any files (source or binary) anywhere on my system called "amgetidx"... what am I missing here? -- Andreas Lund ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Tel: +47 90.07.71.62 / +47 63.88.33.56 Ano-Tech Computers (http://www.atc.no/) ** He had a baseball bat and I was tied to a chair. ** Pissing him off was the smart thing to do. -- Max Payne