Re: summary details show errors but dumper stats (fwd)

[Denise Ives]

Is there an Amanda command to verify images sitting in my holding
disk space? If not I will just run amrecover.

Can amrecover run from an image left in the holding disk space or
does that image need to be flushed to tape first? 



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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:18:58 -0800 (PST)
From: David Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: summary details show errors but dumper stats

Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:42:57 + (GMT)
From: Denise Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED]

show sda10 did its level 1 back up. So did sd10 back up with errors?  

It would appear that a backup image was created, and amanda stored it
for you, per your request.

The extent to which that image might be useful for actually performing a
restore is somewhat open to question, and depending on how
important/critical/... the data happen to be to you  your employers,
you might want to do some sort of reality check, at the very least.

I'd suggest doing the reality check well prior to a time that the data
might actually be perceived to be needed.

Cheers,
david
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Re: summary details show errors but dumper stats (fwd)

[John R. Jackson]

Is there an Amanda command to verify images sitting in my holding
disk space? If not I will just run amrecover.

What do you mean by "verify"?  No command, including amverify, can
validate an image created by dump, be it on tape or in the holding disk.
It's an unfortunate (and stupid) limitation of the corresponding restore
programs.

Amverify can make sure the tape is readable, and that the initial
portion of the image is more or less OK, but cannot validate the internal
consistency of the file portion of an image.

Can amrecover run from an image left in the holding disk space or
does that image need to be flushed to tape first? 

Amrecover can use files in the holding disk at 2.4.2.  I don't remember
if that code was in 2.4.1p1 or not.  I think it was.

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]