Re: amrecover problem

2016-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 14 December 2016 20:15:30 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > On Dec 14, 2016, at 6:04 PM, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 14 December 2016 18:25:23 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > >>> On Dec 14, 2016, at 4:51 PM, Gene Heskett > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Greetings all; > >>> > >>> I added

Re: amrecover problem

2016-12-14 Thread Debra S Baddorf
> On Dec 14, 2016, at 6:04 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 December 2016 18:25:23 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > >>> On Dec 14, 2016, at 4:51 PM, Gene Heskett >>> wrote: >>> >>> Greetings all; >>> >>> I added another machine machine to my disklist about a month back, >>> and now I need

Re: amrecover problem

2016-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 14 December 2016 18:25:23 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > On Dec 14, 2016, at 4:51 PM, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > I added another machine machine to my disklist about a month back, > > and now I need to do a full recovery just to see if I've blown a pin > > on

Re: amrecover problem

2016-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 14 December 2016 18:25:23 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > On Dec 14, 2016, at 4:51 PM, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > I added another machine machine to my disklist about a month back, > > and now I need to do a full recovery just to see if I've blown a pin > > on

Re: amrecover problem

2016-12-14 Thread Debra S Baddorf
> On Dec 14, 2016, at 4:51 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > I added another machine machine to my disklist about a month back, and > now I need to do a full recovery just to see if I've blown a pin on its > gpio. > > The machine is a raspberrypi 3b. > > But even though I have

Re: amrecover problem with amanda 2.6.1p2

2012-04-06 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 18:36:28 +0800, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: > Our AMANDA backup configuration consisted of AMANDA 2.5.2p1 on RHEL3 > as the backup server and AMANDA 2.6.1p2 on RHEL6 as the AMANDA client. > Recently,the RHEL 3 OS on amanda backup server crashed for some reason > and I had to inst

Re: amrecover problem with amanda 2.6.1p2

2012-04-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 04/02/2012 09:57 AM, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hello Jean-Louis, The log..* files have gone with the older OS that crashed. Does that mean I wont be able to use "amrecover" for any of my existing backups ? You wont be able to use "amrecover" for any of your existing backups. Henceforward, d

Re: amrecover problem with amanda 2.6.1p2

2012-04-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 04/02/2012 09:38 AM, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Warning: no log files found for tape FULLBACK-19 written 2012-03-12 Warning: no log files found for tape FULLBACK-05 written 2012-02-07 Warning: no log files found for tape FULLBACK-18 written 2012-01-13 Warning: no log files found for tape FULLBACK-

Re: amrecover problem with amanda 2.6.1p2

2012-04-02 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Martineau To: Yogesh Hasabnis Cc: "amanda-users@amanda.org" Sent: Monday, April 2, 2012 6:29 PM Subject: Re: amrecover problem with amanda 2.6.1p2 Do 'amadmin find' list all dump? Do the tapelist file list all tapes? Do you have all the log..* files? Do 'amch

Re: amrecover problem with amanda 2.6.1p2

2012-04-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do 'amadmin find' list all dump? Do the tapelist file list all tapes? Do you have all the log..* files? Do 'amcheck -s ' print errors or warnings? Jean-Louis On 04/02/2012 06:36 AM, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi All, Our AMANDA backup configuration consisted of AMANDA 2.5.2p1 on RHEL3 as the ba

Re: amrecover problem with amanda 2.6.1p2

2012-04-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do 'amadmin find' list all dump? Do the tapelist file list all tapes? Do you have all the log..* files? Do 'amcheck -s ' print errors or warnings? Jean-Louis On 04/02/2012 06:36 AM, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi All, Our AMANDA backup configuration consisted of AMANDA 2.5.2p1 on RHEL3 as the ba

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-19 Thread Matt Burkhardt
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 14:22 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > > I'm sorry we don't have any good solid answers for you.. > > Well, I can give a little more detail. I encrypted a backup with > amcryptsimple, then changed the passphras

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-17 Thread Matt Burkhardt
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 14:10 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Matt Burkhardt > wrote: > > The "bad key" error doesn't mean the passphrase is wrong (that would be > > "invalid passphrase"). It often means that the file you are decrypting is > > corrupt. Was

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > I'm sorry we don't have any good solid answers for you.. Well, I can give a little more detail. I encrypted a backup with amcryptsimple, then changed the passphrase and tried to decrypt it. I got: gpg: decryption failed: Bad session

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Matt Burkhardt wrote: > Since it's happened on almost every backup I've tried, I'm assuming I'm > missing a very important piece of information - so I do think it's a bad key > or I'm missing the public key.  I have another computer that is backed up the > exact

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-15 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Matt Burkhardt wrote: > The "bad key" error doesn't mean the passphrase is wrong (that would be > "invalid passphrase").  It often means that the file you are decrypting is > corrupt.  Was the file you are decrypting encrypted with a passphrase only or > with a

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-12 Thread Matt Burkhardt
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 08:21 +0100, muessi wrote: > Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: > > I'm not terribly familiar with crypto, but presumably you need the > > secret key to decrypt. Hopefully that was stored somewhere other than > > on the old computer? > > > > BTW, once you get amfetchdump working,

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-11 Thread muessi
Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: > I'm not terribly familiar with crypto, but presumably you need the > secret key to decrypt. Hopefully that was stored somewhere other than > on the old computer? > > BTW, once you get amfetchdump working, amrecover will work fine. > Amrecover just doesn't show error

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Matt Burkhardt wrote: > > I did amfetchdump and on the first run through it was complaining about > /var/lib/amanda/.am_passphrase missing, so I created it and put in the > correct passphrase, now I'm getting this: > > amfetchdump: slot 10: time 20100205150231 la

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-11 Thread Matt Burkhardt
Thanks for being so quick Dustin... I did amfetchdump and on the first run through it was complaining about /var/lib/amanda/.am_passphrase missing, so I created it and put in the correct passphrase, now I'm getting this: amfetchdump: slot 10: time 20100205150231 label laptops-0010 (exact label m

Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive

2010-03-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Amrecover tends to hide the actual error messages, since they occur on the server. Try doing a recovery using amfetchdump, instead. I suspect that there's a missing encryption key or something preventing the recovery. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: amrecover problem

2010-01-18 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
you for your help.   Thanks a lot, Yogesh --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: From: Jean-Louis Martineau Subject: Re: amrecover problem To: "Yogesh Hasabnis" Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 8:53 PM The recover protocol changed, you are still

Re: amrecover problem

2010-01-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The recover protocol changed, you are still configured for the old protocol, you can use it with the 'amoldrecover' command. But you can also configure the server for the new protocol. Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi All, We are using amanda 2.5.2p1 in our setup. The backup server and the client ar

Re: amrecover problem

2010-01-18 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
ut=0, fromaddr=0xd2dd90) amrecover: time 0.094: (sockaddr_in *)0xd2dd90 = { 2, 10080, 192.168.100.19 } amrecover: time 0.094: security_close(handle=0x86c2988, driver=0xd1bcc0 (BSD)) --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: From: Yogesh Hasabnis Subject: Re: amrecover problem To: "Yogesh Hasabni

Re: amrecover problem

2010-01-18 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
The latest amandad.debug file amandad.20100118181046.debug looks like this amandad: debug 1 pid 25297 ruid 30318 euid 30318: start at Mon Jan 18 18:10:46 2010 Could not open conf file "/etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf": No such file or directory amandad: time 0.000: security_getdriver(name=BSD) re

Re: amrecover problem with spaces in directory names

2007-03-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 March 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: >Steven, > >It is a known bug, it is already fixed in the CVS tree. >Try the latest 2.5.1p3 snapshot from >http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php > >You can also try to use wildcard: cd Directory?with?space > >Jean-Louis > >Steven Atkinson

Re: amrecover problem with spaces in directory names

2007-03-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steven, It is a known bug, it is already fixed in the CVS tree. Try the latest 2.5.1p3 snapshot from http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php You can also try to use wildcard: cd Directory?with?space Jean-Louis Steven Atkinson wrote: Hi, I am using amanda-2.5.1p3 with DLEs backed up usin

Re: amrecover problem

2007-01-25 Thread Kevin Till
Eric Doutreleau wrote: Kevin Till a écrit : Axel Seguin wrote: Obviously the client tries to contact the server on port 10080, shouldn't it try to reach the server on port 10082? How can I change that? In ~/.amandahosts on the client I have : amdump Any help would be greatly appreciated

Re: amrecover problem

2007-01-25 Thread Eric Doutreleau
Kevin Till a écrit : Axel Seguin wrote: Obviously the client tries to contact the server on port 10080, shouldn't it try to reach the server on port 10082? How can I change that? In ~/.amandahosts on the client I have : amdump Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hi, there is an update

Re: amrecover problem

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin Till
Axel Seguin wrote: Obviously the client tries to contact the server on port 10080, shouldn't it try to reach the server on port 10082? How can I change that? In ~/.amandahosts on the client I have : amdump Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hi, there is an update on Amanda 2.5.1. To e

Re: amrecover problem

2005-08-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:46:02AM -0400, Lei Zhong wrote: > Thanks for the help. Settape only sets the server/device. I read the > man pages several times. I couldn't find info about how to specify > which tape you want to restore from in amrecover. Just in case some > people didn't read my pr

RE: amrecover problem

2005-08-02 Thread Lei Zhong
Thanks for the help. Settape only sets the server/device. I read the man pages several times. I couldn't find info about how to specify which tape you want to restore from in amrecover. Just in case some people didn't read my previous emails. Here is what I was trying to do. I did four full ba

Re: amrecover problem

2005-08-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:50:11PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 01 August 2005 17:00, Lei Zhong wrote: > >Can somebody help me with the amrecover problem I posted earlier? I > > was testing my amanda config. I don't use tape changer. I did > > four full backups of the same directory on

Re: amrecover problem

2005-08-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 August 2005 17:00, Lei Zhong wrote: >Can somebody help me with the amrecover problem I posted earlier? I > was testing my amanda config. I don't use tape changer. I did > four full backups of the same directory on four different tapes on > the same day. When I ran amrecover, it alwa

Re: amrecover problem

2005-08-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 05:00:10PM -0400, Lei Zhong wrote: > Can somebody help me with the amrecover problem I posted earlier? I was > testing my amanda config. I don't use tape changer. I did four full > backups of the same directory on four different tapes on the same day.

Re: amrecover problem (SOLVED)

2004-06-29 Thread Frederic Medery
Hello, during the amrestore I use settape to force /dev/nst0 instead of 0 (thanks Bernard). And during recover, I answer no to : owner/mode for '.'? [yn] n I'll change the localhost inside the disklist thanks to all !! Frederic Medery System Administrator LexUM, University of Montreal Bernard M

Re: amrecover problem

2004-06-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
Frederic Medery wrote: I had the same prob (the 0 problem). But it's still not working (other reason). Here is my amidxtaped... : amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 1566 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Mon Jun 28 13:21:51 2004 amidxtaped: version 2.4.4p1 amidxtaped: time 0.000: > SECURITY USER root amidxtaped: t

Re: amrecover problem

2004-06-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 June 2004 15:05, Frederic Medery wrote: >I had the same prob (the 0 problem). But it's still not working > (other reason). Here is my > >amidxtaped... : >amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 1566 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Mon Jun 28 >13:21:51 2004 >amidxtaped: version 2.4.4p1 >amidxtaped: time 0.0

Re: amrecover problem

2004-06-28 Thread Frederic Medery
I had the same prob (the 0 problem). But it's still not working (other reason). Here is my amidxtaped... : amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 1566 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Mon Jun 28 13:21:51 2004 amidxtaped: version 2.4.4p1 amidxtaped: time 0.000: > SECURITY USER root amidxtaped: time 0.001: bsd securit

RE: amrecover problem

2004-06-28 Thread Bernard McAuley
Hi, I've had the same message yesterday - I suggest you read the /tmp/Amanda/amidxtaped..debug file and post the contents. In my case amrecover was being passed a '0' for the tapedev instead of a suitable tape device. This was because it was picking up my chg-scsi setup, and mapping the device n

Re: Amrecover Problem

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jim Summers wrote: # unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication. service amidxtape { # flags = REUSE socket_type = stream wait= no user= bin Add: group = disk server = /usr/loca

Re: Amrecover Problem

2003-11-03 Thread Jim Summers
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 10:22, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:43:30AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > > >>On 3 Nov 2003 at 8:37am, Jim Summers wrote > >> > >> > >>>=== > >>>amrestore: could not open /dev/nst0: Permission denied > >> > >>What

Re: Amrecover Problem

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:43:30AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On 3 Nov 2003 at 8:37am, Jim Summers wrote === amrestore: could not open /dev/nst0: Permission denied What does 'ls -l /dev/nst0' say? And what user and group runs amanda on the server? amrecover

Re: Amrecover Problem

2003-11-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 03 November 2003 09:48, Jim Summers wrote: >On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 08:43, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >> On 3 Nov 2003 at 8:37am, Jim Summers wrote >> >> > === >> > amrestore: could not open /dev/nst0: Permission denied >> >> What does 'ls -l /dev/nst0' say? And what user and group

Re: Amrecover Problem

2003-11-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:48:46AM -0600, Jim Summers wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 08:43, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On 3 Nov 2003 at 8:37am, Jim Summers wrote > > > > > === > > > amrestore: could not open /dev/nst0: Permission denied > > > > What does 'ls -l /dev/nst0' say? And wh

Re: Amrecover Problem

2003-11-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 03 November 2003 09:37, Jim Summers wrote: >Hello List, > >I am attempting to recover a file using amrecover. I am running >amrecover on the amanda server and want to recover the file to a > temp directory and then manually put it back in place. This is > amanda 2.4.4p1 on a Redhat9 sys

Re: Amrecover Problem

2003-11-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:43:30AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On 3 Nov 2003 at 8:37am, Jim Summers wrote > > > === > > amrestore: could not open /dev/nst0: Permission denied > > What does 'ls -l /dev/nst0' say? And what user and group runs amanda on > the server? amrecover, i

Re: Amrecover Problem

2003-11-03 Thread Jim Summers
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 08:43, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On 3 Nov 2003 at 8:37am, Jim Summers wrote > > > === > > amrestore: could not open /dev/nst0: Permission denied > > What does 'ls -l /dev/nst0' say? And what user and group runs amanda on > the server? Sorry I forgot to include t

Re: Amrecover Problem

2003-11-03 Thread Marc Cuypers
Jim Summers wrote: Hello List, I am attempting to recover a file using amrecover. I am running amrecover on the amanda server and want to recover the file to a temp directory and then manually put it back in place. This is amanda 2.4.4p1 on a Redhat9 system. I have found references to EOF erro

Re: Amrecover Problem

2003-11-03 Thread Tom Brown
> amrestore: could not open /dev/nst0: Permission denied > amidxtaped: time 0.010: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2 > amidxtaped: time 0.010: rewinding tape ... > amidxtaped: time 0.010: tape_rewind: tape open: /dev/nst0: Permission > denied > amidxtaped: time 0.010: pid 31743 finish ti

Re: Amrecover Problem

2003-11-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 3 Nov 2003 at 8:37am, Jim Summers wrote > === > amrestore: could not open /dev/nst0: Permission denied What does 'ls -l /dev/nst0' say? And what user and group runs amanda on the server? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: amrecover problem

2003-09-22 Thread Markus Dohmann
Hi Jon, > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:42:53AM +0200, Markus Dohmann wrote: > > Hello amada-users lists, > > > > we are using Amanda 2.4.4 (Solaris 8) with GNU tar (1.13.25) and a > > tape archive (Overland LoaderXpress SDLT). Everything works fine except > > for the setting of the recovery date

Re: amrecover problem

2003-09-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:42:53AM +0200, Markus Dohmann wrote: > Hello amada-users lists, > > we are using Amanda 2.4.4 (Solaris 8) with GNU tar (1.13.25) and a > tape archive (Overland LoaderXpress SDLT). Everything works fine except > for the setting of the recovery date of directories. > ...

Re: amrecover problem

2003-09-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
Bruno Negrão wrote: > It´s happening to me also. What I need to avoid it it, on the server > machine, run the command mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind > > This obligates the tape to rewind itself and makes the backup > recovering work. > > Seriously, I can´t believe that a thing like this should be needed. >

Re: amrecover problem

2003-09-18 Thread Bruno Negrão
> Hi, > > Have you add the parameter tapedev "/dev/nrst0", to the amanda.conf ? No, i´m using the "/dev/nst0" instead. What does this "r" letter stand for? My version of amanda is amanda-2.4.2p2-9. I downloaded it from redhat. bruno. > > I think my problem is not this. I think my problem

Re: amrecover problem

2003-09-18 Thread Roberto Samarone Araújo (RSA)
Hi, Have you add the parameter tapedev "/dev/nrst0", to the amanda.conf ? I think my problem is not this. I think my problem is the version of amanda that i'm using :// Thanks, Roberto Samarone Araujo > Hi Roberto, > > It´s happening to me also. What I need to avoid

Re: amrecover problem

2003-09-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
Roberto Samarone Araújo (RSA) wrote: amrecover Day -s myserver -t myserver -d /dev/st0 You need the nonrewinding device /dev/nst0.

Re: amrecover problem

2003-09-18 Thread Bruno Negrão
Hi Roberto, It´s happening to me also. What I need to avoid it it, on the server machine, run the command mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind This obligates the tape to rewind itself and makes the backup recovering work. Seriously, I can´t believe that a thing like this should be needed. Are we missing som

Re: amrecover problem

2003-07-30 Thread Paul Bijnens
Yogish wrote: > 'amrecover -C normal -s borkerserver' > 501, no index records for the host brokerserver, Invalid? > amrecover> sethost localhost > no index records for host :localhost Invalid? I would expect another errormessage here: "No index records for host: %s. Have you enabled indexing?" I

Re: amrecover problem

2003-07-29 Thread briner
hi, when you type amrercover -s borkerserver... it means that borkerserver is where the index information are. I saw in your amanda.conf that your index file are stored in infofile "/var/lib/amanda/normal/curinfo" # database filename logdir "/var/lib/amanda/normal" # log dir

Re: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-28 Thread Freels, James D.
Title: Re: amrecover problem: need help/advice The problem was my scsi card driver. Reviewing my kernel configuration files, between 2.4.14 and 2.4.15 (now running 2.4.21), I switched to the new sym53c8xx_2 driver.  I recompiled my kernel with the older NCR53c7,8xx driver (there is also an

Re: amrecover Problem

2003-07-24 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:10:28 -0600 Yogish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I am trying to get into amrecover on the server, but it says the > connection refused. I typed 'amrecover -C normal -s localhost'. I have > also entered the name of the host on .amandahosts. Can anyone suggest >

Re: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 20 July 2003 18:31, Freels, James D. wrote: >OK. I am learning from this. The number of 1k blocks on the first >stored file on this tape is actually 384 and not 352. I should have >looked at the taper output and not the dumper output. I issue the >following multiple times: > >mt rewin

RE: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-20 Thread Freels, James D.
OK.  I am learning from this. The number of 1k blocks on the first stored file on this tape is actually 384 and not 352.  I should have looked at the taper output and not the dumper output.   I issue the following multiple times: mt rewind mt -f=/dev/tape_norewind fsf 1 dd if=/dev/tape_norewin

RE: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-20 Thread Freels, James D.
OK.  I went to the amdump log file and found that the first file should have 352 1k blocks written to the tape. Then I issued mt rewind mt -f /dev/tape_norewind fsf 1 dd if=/dev/tape_norewind of=./first_file bs=1k count=352 Then the following was received at the console: dd: reading `/dev/t

RE: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-20 Thread Freels, James D.
Gregor, Thanks for responding.  I also responded back to Gene Heskett with his suggestion and a little more information. I would like to try this idea.  How can I determine from the amanda log files ?  Once I output the data from the tape to the drive, how do I conver it back to a .tar f

Re: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-20 Thread Freels, James D.
OK.  I can do this.  Let me summarize: I have a tape labeled "fea12".  This tape like all the tapes if all filesystems were backed up should contain 40 filesystems + front end + back end. I issued the command mt -f /dev/tape_norewind fsf 1 42 times before the end of tape occured and I recei

RE: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-20 Thread Gregor Ibic
 try to read the tape (or chunk - fsf) with dd dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/ bs=1024 count= where NNN is greater than your backup job/disk entry and see what happens   i restored some valueable tape (MTF formated) reading this way and putting the pieces together.   regards, gregor  

Re: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 July 2003 10:46, Freels, James D. wrote: >Hello I have used amanda for a long time and have used the amrecover >command to recover files/directories in the past without problems. >Recently, I accidently deleted a large chunk of my home directory > (you don't really want to know how t

RE: amrecover problem

2003-05-29 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, May 27, 2003 10:47:11 -0500 Rebecca Pakish Crum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I setup Amanda for the first time and there is problem with amrecover. Only some of the directories and files dumped to the tape are listed in amrecover. The index files looks strange: 07664670563/./ 0

RE: amrecover problem

2003-05-27 Thread Rebecca Pakish Crum
> Hello, > > I setup Amanda for the first time and there is problem with > amrecover. Only some > of the directories and files dumped to the tape are listed in > amrecover. The > index files looks strange: > > 07664670563/./ > 07664670563/./.ICAClient/ > 07664670563/./.acrobat/ > 07664670563/

Re: amrecover Problem

2003-04-04 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi there, ive got a Problem with amrecover on an Debian GNU/Linux maschine. amrecover reports: No index records for disk for specified date If date correct, notify system administrator In debug files in /tmp i cant find any other Informations.Debugfile is there but the informations are the same s

Re: amrecover problem with changer

2003-03-21 Thread Eric . Doutreleau
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 05:30:14PM -0800, Stephen Walton wrote: > > I am trying a test amrestore of some files after amanda has run for a > > bit on a RedHat 8.0 system with an HP DDS-3 6-tape changer. The backups > > are fine, as are the automatic tape

Re: amrecover problem with changer

2003-03-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 05:30:14PM -0800, Stephen Walton wrote: > I am trying a test amrestore of some files after amanda has run for a > bit on a RedHat 8.0 system with an HP DDS-3 6-tape changer. The backups > are fine, as are the automatic tape changes; I can get at all of my > backups manuall

Re: amrecover problem

2002-08-11 Thread Jay Lessert
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 05:19:16PM +0100, Mark Snelling wrote: > I have a problem with amanda. It seems to back up my filesystems ok (except > for the warning below). When I run amrecover, 2 of the filesystems I can > browse through, but /mnt/data has the directory structure and NO files?! Has > a

RE: Amrecover problem with gtar

2002-02-22 Thread Javier.Fernandez
ier Fernandez Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: Amrecover problem with gtar On 21 Feb 2002 at 9:17am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Well, i have three machines with amanda, my disklist is > > sc01us0105/ user-tar > sc01us

Re: Amrecover problem with gtar

2002-02-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 21 Feb 2002 at 9:17am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Well, i have three machines with amanda, my disklist is > > sc01us0105/ user-tar > sc01us0103.cf.jcyl.es / user-tar > sc01us0103.cf.jcyl.e

Re: Amrecover problem

2002-02-10 Thread Clinton Dilks
Ta works a treat :) >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/11/02 15:02 PM >>> >Exec'ing /sbin/vrestore with arguments: >restore >xbf >2 >- >... I assume you're talking about Amanda 2.4.2p2? And if you run vrestore with the 'b' and '2' args it will work? I fixed this a while a

Re: Amrecover problem

2002-02-10 Thread John R. Jackson
>Exec'ing /sbin/vrestore with arguments: >restore >xbf >2 >- >... I assume you're talking about Amanda 2.4.2p2? And if you run vrestore with the 'b' and '2' args it will work? I fixed this a while ago and I think the following patch will take care of it for you.

Re: Amrecover problem.

2002-01-18 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 18 Jan 2002 at 12:23pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > does anybody know why?? > if i put a 0 in a entry disklist, does Amanda always make full dumps of > level 0? > No. In the disklist, that 4th column is the spindle number, which can help you control how many dumps run on a particular disk a

Re: amrecover problem with file permissions

2001-12-21 Thread Chris Miller
In regards to the problem I posted on Wednesday, I've determined that the permissions/modes didn't get set because the restore did not complete properly, however amanda did not complain. This happened at the point amrecover was done reading/recovering all records from tape, and ready to start on

Re: amrecover problem

2001-08-25 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, John W. Price wrote: > disks, networks, and the like. If there is another disk I should be > using, by all means let me know. http://www-internal.alphanet.ch/archives/local/alphanet/divers/patches/amanda/DISASTER_RECOVERY/ supports Amanda recovery with direct (SCSI) or rem

Re: amrecover problem

2001-08-24 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
John W. Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > amrecover: amandaidx/tcp unknown protocol something is missing in your /etc/services.

Re: amrecover problem

2001-06-22 Thread Juergen Knott
Hi John! > >extracting files using tapedrive 0 on host fileserver > Note the "tapedrive 0". That can't possibly the path to your tape drive. > You probably need to put "-d /dev/whatever" on the amrecover command line. For security: My NoRewinding device ist /dev/nst0. Shall i take this device

Re: amrecover problem

2001-06-21 Thread Juergen Knott
Am Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2001 22:17 schrieben Sie: Hi John! > >For security: My NoRewinding device ist /dev/nst0. > >Shall i take this device for my changer? > It should be the tape device name. Whether it is also your changer > device name depends on your hardware. > >When i take > >amrecover -d

Re: amrecover problem

2001-06-20 Thread John R. Jackson
>For security: My NoRewinding device ist /dev/nst0. >Shall i take this device for my changer? It should be the tape device name. Whether it is also your changer device name depends on your hardware. >When i take >amrecover -d /dev/nst0 or >amrecover -d /dev/st0 > >and i become the same error .

Re: amrecover problem on linux

2001-03-13 Thread John R. Jackson
>Mar 13 13:23:55 nuthatch inetd[17275]: execv >/usr/local/libexec/amindexd: No such file or directory This seems pretty obvious to me. Do you have this file? Are all the directories down to it searchable by the Amanda user listed in inetd.conf? >RLE John R. Jackson, Technical Software Special

Re: Amrecover Problem in 2.4.2pl1

2001-02-21 Thread Patrick LIN
"John R. Jackson" a écrit : > > >i still have a prob with amrecover in 2.4.2pl1 > >i never have this prob in previous version > > > >i run amanda server on a Sun sol 2.6 > >... > >but when i try amrecover on the server , to restore a file or dir > >i always have : > >... > >error reading tape: Co

Re: Amrecover Problem in 2.4.2pl1

2001-02-20 Thread John R. Jackson
>i still have a prob with amrecover in 2.4.2pl1 >i never have this prob in previous version > >i run amanda server on a Sun sol 2.6 >... >but when i try amrecover on the server , to restore a file or dir >i always have : >... >error reading tape: Connection reset by peer Is there anything of int

Re: Amrecover Problem, amandahostauth problem in amidxtaped.debug

2001-02-15 Thread John R. Jackson
>bsd security: remote host stanley.domain.org user root local user amanda >... >But on hall the common-src/security program produces the following : > >Remote user: amanda You need to give ./security "root" as the remote user, not "amanda", then see what it has to say. I seem to recall seeing so

Re: amrecover problem

2000-12-24 Thread John R. Jackson
>I'm unable to see all backed up files while browsing trough the directorys >via amrecover, but viewing the index-files manualy showed that the files are >included in the backup... Please send me (it's probably too big for the whole list) the contents of the /tmp/amanda/amindexd*debug file that m

Re: amrecover problem

2000-12-21 Thread Urte Fuerst
Hi Mirko and list, > We set up a new amanda-2.4.2 backup-server, and right now I'm > involved in testing > the backup and recover with the server. > While testing amrecover, some strange behaviour showed up: > I'm unable to see all backed up files while browsing trough the > directorys > via amre