Hello Group, I tend to figure things out on my own fairly quickly, however I can't seem to figure this problem out.
I have a tape that I archived on February 25th, 2005. My tape cycle is 5 weeks and therefore February 25th has long been gone. I had stopped backing up this particular host on that date due to stability issues. However, I need to restore a tar'd file from this tape off that host. I run amrecover -C xes setdate 2005-02-25 sethost brimstone setdisk sdb1 and this message pops up: No index records for disk for specified date If date correct, notify system administrator At first I figured that since the tape was old, that the index record has been rotated or removed. I check /var/lib/amanda/xes/index/brimstone/sdb1 and noticed that the index file does index exist for that date. My question is this. If the tapecycle (which I tried to change temporarily in the config but no such luck) is less than the date you're trying to restore, will amanda not be able to restore it and automatically fail with the message above? Or am I not doing something wrong? If it is not possible to use amrecover at this point, someone one to point me on how to restore a file from tape that has a combination of zipped tar's and dumps. Thanks for any knowledge.