Hello everyone, Just recovering from a panic attack, where I was unable to perform a restore from dumps done on an RHEL v4 client. Since others may see this as well, I thought I'd drop a heads up.
You'll know you've seen this when amrecover complains that "root is missing from tape". If you save the dump file from amrecover and look at it with restore, you will get nothing useful. You won't be able to rebuild QFA data, you won't be able to get things off the tape. If you have amrestore look through the tape (something like: "amrestore -f 0 -p file:/var/backups/tape01 doesnotexist > /dev/null"), you'll notice that the tape listing stops before it actually lists everything there (easy for me to see on vtapes, heh). What happened: Some new version of dump must've gone into RHEL v4U3 which produces dumps that make older versions of restore very unhappy. I was able to solve the issue by upgrading the server and the client to the newest dump/restore. In particular, Knoppix v4.0.2 (which I use for baremetal restores) is affected by this issue. I'm not sure if this is a RedHat specific bug, or if it affects all newer versions of dump for ext2/3. -- Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37