On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 03:00:44PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
> hmm, didn't specify either of those in configure when I built Amanda 3.3.3.
> However, now that you mention amanda-client.conf, I went and looked for
> that. Turns out they were both specified there (I originally rsynced
> /usr/local/etc/amanda/ to the new server and then went about modifying
> stuff to set it up). However, changing the entries there and then running
> amrecover didn't seem to change anything.
>
> So, I tried `setdevice -h localhost /dev/nst0`, but it tells me it cannot
> talk to the tape server [request failed: timeout waiting for ACK].
>
> I also tried
>
> chrisho@supereclogite:/amanda1$ sudo amrecover -s localhost -t localhost -d
> /dev/nst0 -h eclogite.geo.umass.edu -C daily
> AMRECOVER Version 3.3.3. Contacting server on localhost ...
> [request failed: timeout waiting for ACK]
>
> Totally puzzled, because the Amanda backups seems to have been running
> flawlessly. I can access the tape drive with mt and the changer with mtx,
> and Amanda has been writing stuff to tapes.
>
> As I mentioned in my reply to Brian, I'm going to have to change my
> workflow to recover stuff for the Solaris client. But, I'll still need to
> resolve some of these issues, because the old Amanda server might have
> stuff in its configuration and files that make it think it is still the
> server.
Chris,
If you are restoring on the server, you can just use amrestore,
rather than amrecover, and pull the dump set back, amrestore will
automatically decompress, if necessary, but will not unpack it
if you leave off the -p option and do not pipe it to ufsrestore.
Then you can scp the dump file to the E250.
I believe that amrecover running on the client (once those issues
are corrected) will decompress and pipe the stream to the client
and run ufsrestore for you on the client. There shouldn't be an
issue with trying to run ufsrestore on the linux amanda server,
amanda was programmed smarter than that.
> On 6/17/13 2:04 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> >The default index and tape server are set when amanda is compiled, at the
> >configure step.
> >You can overwrite the default different ways:
> >
> >amrecover -s ... -t ... (man amrecover)
> >add them to amanda-client.conf (man amanda-client.conf)
> >you can also change the tape server inside amrecover:
> > setdevice [[-h tape-server] tapedev] (help command inside
> > amrecover)
> >You can't change the index server inside amrecover.
> >
> >jean-Louis
> >
> >On 06/17/2013 01:47 PM, 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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