Um, never mind...I was able to use amrestore with no problems, and for what I was doing, it was probably better than amrecover anyway.
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > OMG, I had those two commented out, because at one time, the amanda server > was a client only. It's now the server, and it's been backing up fine > with just amandad in there. I just uncommented restarted inetd, but now I > get the following: > > AMRECOVER Version 2.5.0p2. Contacting server on ns1.pil.net ... > 220 ns1 AMANDA index server (2.5.0p2) ready. > 200 Access OK > Setting restore date to today (2007-07-23) > 200 Working date set to 2007-07-23. > 501 Index directory /var/adm/amanda/colos/index does not exist > > I assume this is because amandixd never ran on that config. The question > now is, can this FS be restored, and if nos, how? > > Thanks! > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > > > > > What is your xinetd configure on ns1.pil.net for the amandaidx and > > amidxtaped services? > > > > Jean-Louis > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've restored amanda file systems in the past from tape using amrestore. > > > However, I switched from tapes to vtapes several months ago and am trying > > > to restore a file system. > > > > > > According to the FAQs and posts I saw searching various archives, one > > > wants to use amrecover intead of amrestore for vtapes. > > > > > > Trying to run as user amanda, I am told it has to be run as root. When I > > > run it as root, I get this error: > > > > > > su-2.05b# amrecover -C colos > > > AMRECOVER Version 2.5.0p2. Contacting server on ns1.pil.net ... > > > amrecover: cannot connect to server.mydomain.net: Connection refused > > > > > > I then add the user root to ~amanda/.amandahosts, but it doesn't make a > > > difference: > > > > > > (Partial) cat ~amanda/.amandahosts > > > > > > localhost.mydomain.net amanda > > > server.mydomain.net amanda > > > server.mydomain.net root > > > localhost.mydomain.net root > > > > > > I also tried adding to this config's amanda.conf the following: > > > > > > amrecover_changer "file:/path/to/tapedev" > > > > > > And it didn't help. What am I missing? > > > > > > TIA, > > > > > > James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://3.am > > > ========================================================================= > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://3.am > ========================================================================= > > James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am =========================================================================
