Re: tar, amrecover problems

2002-10-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello James, What's the output of 'amadmin find'?, amrecover will not use a dump that is not listed. Could you also provide your amindexd.*.debug file. Jean-Louis On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:39:03PM -0400, James Shearer wrote: > Hello. > > I am new to amanda, and recently attempted a test rec

Re: tar, amrecover problems

2002-10-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:26:36PM -0400, James Shearer wrote: > > > > I get this error every time I run amrecover from a directory that isn't > > in my disklist, or from a host that isn't the backup server. > > > > Try using the sethost, setdisk, and setdate commands in amrecover. > > Yep. I

RE: tar, amrecover problems

2002-10-04 Thread Anthony Valentine
Well, so much for that. . . What do the directories and data look like in your curinfo directory? I don't remember if that tar problem corrupts it also. Anthony On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 10:26, James Shearer wrote: > > > > I get this error every time I run amrecover from a directory that isn'

RE: tar, amrecover problems

2002-10-04 Thread James Shearer
> I'm not sure editing is a fix. Someone on this list reported that > restoring > from one of the bad tar archives resulted in the files being OK but the > directories were all renamed (I think to big numbers), and that if you > knew what the paths were supposed to be you could (with a lot of wo

Re: tar, amrecover problems

2002-10-04 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, October 04, 2002 13:39:03 -0400 James Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > I am new to amanda, and recently attempted a test recovery using amrecover. > Alas, I did not get very far. I recieved the "No index records for disk for > specified date" error, despite having ena

RE: tar, amrecover problems

2002-10-04 Thread James Shearer
> I get this error every time I run amrecover from a directory that isn't > in my disklist, or from a host that isn't the backup server. > > Try using the sethost, setdisk, and setdate commands in amrecover. Yep. I've tried that before. It's still no good, as you can see: # /usr/local/sbin/

Re: tar, amrecover problems

2002-10-04 Thread Anthony Valentine
I get this error every time I run amrecover from a directory that isn't in my disklist, or from a host that isn't the backup server. Try using the sethost, setdisk, and setdate commands in amrecover. For example: sbs|amv: /tmp > sudo amrecover Gemini AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacti