On 9/7/07, Chris Hoogendyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why get tangled up trying to second guess Amanda? Amanda knows what's on > tape and what's on holding disk and how to put it together. In my > experience, I can simply do > > $ amrecover daily > > and specify a host, etc. and it will recover it. I've purposely tested > this on stuff that was left in the holding disk. It seems that the only > time you should have to piece things together "manually" is if the > amanda server itself is down and you have nothing set up for the > situation and no other recourse but to start using dd, concatenating > pieces, gunzipping them, untarring them, etc. And those steps are > actually spelled out in the file header when it goes on tape. > > Am I mistaken or missing something here?
I've had bad luck with amrecover in the past; it seemed fairly unreliable the last time I tried it (Amanda 2.4.4p3 on RHEL 4), and so I've avoided it since. I really ought to give it another try, though. Thank you for the encouragement to do so. Josh Kelley
