amrecover failure

2012-04-26 Thread Greg Copeland
Trying to recover a file via amrecover. I set the host and disk. I add the file in question. I confirm the tape is in the drive. I tell it to extract. I get: Got no header and data from server, check in amidxtaped.*.debug and amandad.*.debug files on server Any help? I have no idea where to

Re: amrecover failure

2012-04-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 04/26/2012 11:43 AM, Greg Copeland wrote: Trying to recover a file via amrecover. I set the host and disk. I add the file in question. I confirm the tape is in the drive. I tell it to extract. I get: Got no header and data from server, check in amidxtaped.*.debug and amandad.*.debug files

Re: amrecover failure

2012-04-26 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
On 4/26/12 11:43 AM, Greg Copeland wrote: Trying to recover a file via amrecover. I set the host and disk. I add the file in question. I confirm the tape is in the drive. I tell it to extract. I get: Got no header and data from server, check in amidxtaped.*.debug and amandad.*.debug files

Re: amrecover failure [RESOLVED]

2012-04-26 Thread Greg Copeland
On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 09:54 -0600, Steven Backus wrote: Thanks to Steven Backus and Jean-Louis for the win. This excerpt was sent to me by Steven and did fix my issue. I manually applied it to the perl module from my source build directory and then simply copied it into production. Of course, I

Re: amrecover failure

2012-04-26 Thread Greg Copeland
On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 12:12 -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: The debug files should be in /tmp/amanda/server/ with the date-time stamp in the place of the *. Of course, if you commented out debugging, you can always uncomment it and then run amrecover again to get the debug files.

My amrecover failure revisited

2008-11-21 Thread Gene Heskett
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

Re: My amrecover failure revisited

2008-11-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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]? Is amanda_changer set to

Re: My amrecover failure revisited

2008-11-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 21 November 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: My amrecover failure revisited

2008-11-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not an 'amanda_changer' in my old amanda.conf, remember this thing can darned near be exempt from child labor laws. I do have: Sorry, I meant 'amrecover_changer'. I'd have to look at the logs to see what happened, then.

Re: My amrecover failure revisited

2008-11-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 21 November 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not an 'amanda_changer' in my old amanda.conf, remember this thing can darned near be exempt from child labor laws. I do have: Sorry, I meant 'amrecover_changer'. I'd

Re: My amrecover failure revisited

2008-11-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 21 November 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not an 'amanda_changer' in my old amanda.conf, remember this thing can darned near be exempt from child labor laws. I do have: Sorry, I meant 'amrecover_changer'. I'd

Re: amrecover failure, corrupted gzip file?

2003-03-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Fri March 28 2003 23:32, Gene Heskett wrote: On Fri March 28 2003 12:46, Mike Simpson wrote: Hi -- Any tips or tricks or other thoughts? Is this the Linux dump/restore problem I've seen talked about on the mailing list? I don't understand how the gzip file could be corrupted by a problem

Re: amrecover failure, corrupted gzip file?

2003-03-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Mike, Thanks for your good description of the problem. You found a bug in a the way the taper read a file from holding disk if blocksize 32k. There is two posible workaround (untested). 1. Set your chunksize to '32k + n * blocksize' where n is an integer. 2. Set file-pad to false. Setting

Re: amrecover failure, corrupted gzip file?

2003-03-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sat March 29 2003 12:04, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi Mike, Thanks for your good description of the problem. You found a bug in a the way the taper read a file from holding disk if blocksize 32k. There is two posible workaround (untested). 1. Set your chunksize to '32k + n * blocksize'

Re: amrecover failure, corrupted gzip file?

2003-03-28 Thread Mike Simpson
Hi -- Any tips or tricks or other thoughts? Is this the Linux dump/restore problem I've seen talked about on the mailing list? I don't understand how the gzip file could be corrupted by a problem internal to the dump/restore cycle. Answering my own question after a week of testing ... I

Re: amrecover failure, corrupted gzip file?

2003-03-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Fri March 28 2003 12:46, Mike Simpson wrote: Hi -- Any tips or tricks or other thoughts? Is this the Linux dump/restore problem I've seen talked about on the mailing list? I don't understand how the gzip file could be corrupted by a problem internal to the dump/restore cycle. Answering

amrecover failure, corrupted gzip file?

2003-03-21 Thread Mike Simpson
Hi -- Running Amanda 2.4.4 servers and clients, using a RedHat 7.3 tape host, backing up using DUMP method (dump/restore) ext2 filesystems on a RedHat 7.2 client host: I tried to do an amrecover on the /home filesystem (~8 GB), which recovered all of the directories (as expected) and about

Amrecover failure.

2001-05-07 Thread milesfj
Hello, I was wondering if anyone had ran into any troubles with amrecover before. I can backup files fine but when I try to run amrecover, then it says that amanda access is not allowed. It seems like if amanda wasn't allowed then I wouldn't be able to backup the files on the server.

Re: Amrecover failure.

2001-05-07 Thread Pierre Volcke
[root@tapeserver /root]# amrecover -C Normal AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p1. Contacting server on name_server ... 220 tapeserver AMANDA index server (2.4.2p1) ready. 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from root@tapeserver] amandahostsauth failed [root@tapeserver /root]# In

Re: amrecover failure

2001-01-17 Thread wad
Okay, I see. amrecover is trying to put the files back to baboquivari, the NT machine that crashed. What I was trying to do was restore the specified files to a local drive on navajo (my amanda server) because baboquivari isn't going to be coming back, and there were just a couple of files that