from the session that I included,
supereclogite is the new 3.3.3 Amanda server, and
eclogite is the old 2.5.1p3 Amanda server.
The old server, eclogite, was added to the disklist on the new server, supereclogite, and has been
backed up there since.
My session is on the new Amanda server asking to recover a file that was backed up to the new Amanda
server and put to tape on the new Amanda server, but the file is from the old server. So I'm doing
everything on the new Amanda server. The old one is a client to the new one.
hmm. Interesting. As I go over this in my mind, I'm realizing that the client was using ufsdump and
then sending the resulting file over to the server. But, the server is Ubuntu. It cannot do a
ufsrestore. Interesting. This is the first time I have had an Ubuntu server as the Amanda server
(I've had a bunch of them as clients), and it seems that it breaks the work flow that I am used to.
Still, I will need to straighten out what it is doing with regard to tape drive and index server.
On 6/17/13 2:06 PM, Brian Cuttler wrote:
Chris,
You are using the amanda client/server and issuing the restore
from the E250? Or you are restoring the tar/dump file on the
server and (if dump) porting the (decompressed) file back to the
client to unpack?
If the first option, maybe you are still referencing the config
on the E250, that is, the server config, rather than a client
config.
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 01:47:08PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
puzzle. If you recall, I switched from Amanda 2.5.1p3 on a Solaris 9 server
on an E250 to Amanda 3.3.3 on an Ubuntu 12.04 server on SuperMicro around
May 22. The transition seemed to run smoothly.
The old E250 is still running mail services, and the new Amanda server is
still backing that up.
So, now someone wants their mail files recovered from May 26. Cool. Tapes
were written by the new server on that date. But, when I run amrecover, I
ran into the situation below. It seems to be searching for a tape drive on
the old server rather than on the new server. Weird. I've been running
Amanda on the new server with the tape library and tape drive on the new
server for several weeks and it has been working just fine as far as the
Amanda email reports go. I went through the amanda.conf, changer.conf, etc.
and find no references to any server. It should just be looking for the
devices on the Amanda server that I am running this on.
Any idea what's up with this? And how I can fix it?
I know I can just read the tape using native facilities, but I really don't
want to fall back on that if I don't have to. This should all just work, as
it always has in the past.
-------------- attempted amrecover session ---------------
chrisho@supereclogite:/usr/local/adm$ cd /amanda1
chrisho@supereclogite:/amanda1$ sudo amrecover daily
[sudo] password for chrisho:
AMRECOVER Version 3.3.3. Contacting server on eclogite.geo.umass.edu ...
220 eclogite AMANDA index server (2.5.1p3) ready.
Setting restore date to today (2013-06-17)
200 Working date set to 2013-06-17.
200 Config set to daily.
501 Host supereclogite is not in your disklist.
Trying host supereclogite.geo.umass.edu ...
200 Dump host set to supereclogite.geo.umass.edu.
Use the setdisk command to choose dump disk to recover
amrecover> sethost eclogite.geo.umass.edu
200 Dump host set to eclogite.geo.umass.edu.
amrecover> setdisk /var/mail
200 Disk set to /var/mail.
amrecover> setdate --05-26
200 Working date set to 2013-05-26.
amrecover> add cooke
Added file /cooke
amrecover> extract
Extracting files using tape drive LIB-162A5 on host eclogite.geo.umass.edu.
The following tapes are needed: geo-daily-13
Extracting files using tape drive LIB-162A5 on host eclogite.geo.umass.edu.
Load tape geo-daily-13 now
Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? y
could not stat 'LIB-162A5': No such file or directory
Load tape geo-daily-13 now
Continue [?/Y/n/d]? ?
Enter "y"es to continue, "n"o to stop or "d" to change to a new device
Continue [?/Y/n/d]? d
New device name [?]: /dev/nst0
Using tape "/dev/nst0" from server eclogite.geo.umass.edu.
Continue [?/Y/n/d]? y
could not stat '/dev/nst0': No such file or directory
could not stat '/dev/nst0': No such file or directory
Load tape geo-daily-13 now
Continue [?/Y/n/d]? d
New device name [?]: ?
Enter a new device name or "default"
New device name [?]: default
Using default tape from server eclogite.geo.umass.edu.
Continue [?/Y/n/d]? y
Got no header and data from server, check in amidxtaped.*.debug and
amandad.*.debug files on server
amrecover> exit
200 Good bye.
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Chris Hoogendyk
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O__ ---- Systems Administrator
c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments
(*) \(*) -- 347 Morrill Science Center
~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
<hoogen...@bio.umass.edu>
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Erdös 4
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Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org
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Chris Hoogendyk
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O__ ---- Systems Administrator
c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments
(*) \(*) -- 347 Morrill Science Center
~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
<hoogen...@bio.umass.edu>
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Erdös 4