Greetings; Conditions still the same, but last night I was again forced to use dd to extract a directory from a backup vtape file, amrecover again complaining it cannot find the Daily-18 vtape. And if you ask it to rescan, there seems to be a lock on chg-disk and it cannot access chg-disk to repeat the operation.
Is this one of the failures inherent in switching to the use of amgtar maybe? The last 8 or 9 runs before the boot disk had a heart attack were made with its use. amcheck is still as happy as a clam FWIW. No tape labels have been changed in a year, and the vtape directory structure is too big to post, but looks like this: /amandatapes/Dailys/data ->slot(n), and the first file in each slot directory is the tape label, 00000.Daily-1 through Daily-30. It doesn't help if I edit the symlink 'data' to point at the correct slot(n) directory either. [EMAIL PROTECTED] F9respins]# ls /amandatapes Dailys grub lost+found mbr-backups In the Dailys dir: Dailys-16 slot1 slot12 slot15 slot18 slot20 slot23 slot26 slot29 slot4 slot7 Dailys-8 slot10 slot13 slot16 slot19 slot21 slot24 slot27 slot3 slot5 slot8 data slot11 slot14 slot17 slot2 slot22 slot25 slot28 slot30 slot6 slot9 And the label files: [EMAIL PROTECTED] F9respins]# su amanda - [EMAIL PROTECTED] F9respins]$ ls -lR /amandatapes|grep 00000 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 06:22 00000.Dailys-1 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-12 01:36 00000.Dailys-10 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-13 01:25 00000.Dailys-11 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-14 01:25 00000.Dailys-12 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-14 05:11 00000.Dailys-13 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-14 06:22 00000.Dailys-14 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-14 07:35 00000.Dailys-15 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-15 01:51 00000.Dailys-16 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-16 01:37 00000.Dailys-17 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-16 05:50 00000.Dailys-18 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-02 01:47 00000.Dailys-19 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 08:25 00000.Dailys-2 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-03 01:57 00000.Dailys-20 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-04 01:42 00000.Dailys-21 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-05 01:35 00000.Dailys-22 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-06 01:42 00000.Dailys-23 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-07 01:42 00000.Dailys-24 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-08 01:50 00000.Dailys-25 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 01:43 00000.Dailys-26 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 03:14 00000.Dailys-27 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 04:43 00000.Dailys-28 ls: cannot open directory /amandatapes/lost+found: Permission denied -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 05:19 00000.Dailys-29 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 13:11 00000.Dailys-3 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 07:23 00000.Dailys-30 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 14:12 00000.Dailys-4 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 15:47 00000.Dailys-5 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 16:49 00000.Dailys-6 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 17:39 00000.Dailys-7 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-10 01:35 00000.Dailys-8 -rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-11 01:25 00000.Dailys-9 Humm drive perms? [EMAIL PROTECTED] F9respins]$ ls -l / total 213 drwxr-xr-x 6 amanda disk 4096 2008-11-15 00:29 amandatapes So that is ok, [EMAIL PROTECTED] F9respins]$ ls -l /amandatapes total 44 drwxrwxr-x 32 amanda disk 4096 2008-11-20 23:26 Dailys as is that, but I just found two of the slot dirs were owned by root and fixed that. Trace of procedure: [EMAIL PROTECTED] share]# amrecover Daily AMRECOVER Version 2.6.1alpha-20081114. Contacting server on coyote.coyote.den ... 220 coyote AMANDA index server (2.6.1alpha-20081114) ready. Setting restore date to today (2008-11-21) 200 Working date set to 2008-11-21. 200 Config set to Daily. 501 Host coyote.coyote.den is not in your disklist. Trying host coyote.coyote.den ... 501 Host coyote.coyote.den is not in your disklist. Trying host coyote ... 200 Dump host set to coyote. Use the setdisk command to choose dump disk to recover amrecover> setdisk /usr/dlds 200 Disk set to /usr/dlds. amrecover> lcd /tmp/dlds amrecover> ls 2008-11-15-01-25-04 tgzs/ 2008-11-15-01-25-04 rpms/ 2008-11-15-01-25-04 misc/ 2008-11-15-01-25-04 . amrecover> add tgzs rpms misc Added dir /tgzs/ at date 2008-11-14-05-11-08 Added dir /tgzs/ at date 2008-11-15-01-25-04 Added dir /rpms/ at date 2008-11-14-05-11-08 Added dir /rpms/ at date 2008-11-15-01-25-04 Added dir /misc/ at date 2008-11-14-05-11-08 Added dir /misc/ at date 2008-11-15-01-25-04 amrecover> extract Extracting files using tape drive chg-disk on host coyote. The following tapes are needed: Dailys-13 Dailys-16 Restoring files into directory /tmp/dlds Continue [?/Y/n]? Extracting files using tape drive chg-disk on host coyote. Load tape Dailys-13 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? Volume labeled 'Dailys-13' not found. Load tape Dailys-13 now Continue [?/Y/n/d]? At which point you have to answer n twice to get the amrecover prompt back. So its all there. What could have changed? PEBKAC? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac; you can always take something for it.