Re: Problems with amrecover in 2.4.5p1

2006-02-21 Thread Stephen Carville
Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-02-21 09:25, Stephen Carville wrote: My attempt to restore files with amrecover keep failing since I upgraded to 2.4.5. The output in amidxtaped.debug looks like: amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 14962 ruid 250 euid 250: start at Mon Feb 20 [...] amrestore: could not

Re: Problems with amrecover in 2.4.5p1

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-02-21 09:25, Stephen Carville wrote: My attempt to restore files with amrecover keep failing since I upgraded to 2.4.5. The output in amidxtaped.debug looks like: amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 14962 ruid 250 euid 250: start at Mon Feb 20 [...] amrestore: could not open /dev/ait2: Permissi

Re: Problems with amrecover, no error messages

2004-11-22 Thread Sylvia Gelman
Hi Jon, first of all, many thanks for your answer. I was so confused that I even didn´t try a stupid find over the maschine. Ok, ... I found the file. My error in reasoning was that I thought I can change in the directory where to recover to after running amrecover with lcd. Thank you very much

Re: Problems with amrecover, no error messages

2004-11-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:17:27AM +0100, Sylvia Gelman wrote: > Hi, > > I had similar Problems to Toralf Lund (13.10.2004), after setting chunksize > to 1GB it seems ok and I didn´t get anymore the following error messages: > > invalid sparse archive member > tar: Skipping to next header > > B

Re: Problems with amrecover

2004-02-27 Thread Thomas Jones
I thought that as well and changed permissions to 777, still no joy. On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 16:35, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 at 8:34pm, Thomas Jones wrote > > > Here is an example: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _root]# zmore 20040226_0.gz > > --> 20040226_0.gz <-- > > /

Re: Problems with amrecover

2004-02-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 at 8:34pm, Thomas Jones wrote > Here is an example: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _root]# zmore 20040226_0.gz > --> 20040226_0.gz <-- > / Well, bugger, those look alright. That was my best idea, too. What are the permissions on those directories and the files? -- Joshua B

Re: Problems with amrecover

2004-02-26 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 at 6:02pm, Thomas Jones wrote > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _root]# pwd > /var/lib/amanda/full/index/omega/_root > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _root]# ls > 20040212_1.gz 20040215_2.gz 20040218_1.gz 20040221_0.gz 20040224_1.gz > 20040213_0.gz 20040216_0.gz 20040219_0.gz 20040222_1.gz 20040225

Re: Problems with amrecover

2004-02-26 Thread Thomas Jones
Here is an example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _root]# zmore 20040226_0.gz --> 20040226_0.gz <-- / /.borland/ /.cpan/ /.cpan/Bundle/ /.cpan/build/ /.cpan/build/Algorithm-Cluster-1.24/ /.cpan/build/Algorithm-Cluster-1.24/blib/ /.cpan/build/Algorithm-Cluster-1.24/blib/arch/ /.cpan/build/Algorithm-Clu

Re: problems with amrecover

2003-12-30 Thread jessica blackburn
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 11:11, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:32:49AM -0500, jessica blackburn wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 10:11, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 09:31:23AM -0500, jessica blackburn wrote: > > > > It looks like i'm running an amdump successfully.

Re: problems with amrecover

2003-12-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:32:49AM -0500, jessica blackburn wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 10:11, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 09:31:23AM -0500, jessica blackburn wrote: > > > It looks like i'm running an amdump successfully. however, when i try > > > to recover i get this error:

Re: problems with amrecover

2003-12-30 Thread jessica blackburn
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 10:11, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 09:31:23AM -0500, jessica blackburn wrote: > > It looks like i'm running an amdump successfully. however, when i try > > to recover i get this error: > > > > Extracting files using tape drive file:/backup/t2 on host hccweb.

Re: problems with amrecover

2003-12-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 09:31:23AM -0500, jessica blackburn wrote: > It looks like i'm running an amdump successfully. however, when i try > to recover i get this error: > > Extracting files using tape drive file:/backup/t2 on host hccweb. > Load tape DailySet100 now Why is it looking for tape D

Re: problems with amrecover

2003-12-30 Thread Fran Fabrizio
> When amrecover said "load . now" did you actually load the > correct file tape before answering "y"? > That message is not so much a question but a directive. As an aside, I found this message to be rather confusing, too easy to misread as "Loading tape foo now" and misinterpret it as a sta

Re: problems with amrecover

2003-12-30 Thread Fran Fabrizio
> Extracting files using tape drive file:/backup/t2 on host hccweb. > Load tape DailySet100 now > Continue [?/Y/n/t]? y > EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on hccweb. > amrecover: short block 0 bytes > UNKNOWN file > amrecover: Can't read file header > extract_list - child returned non-zero status:

RE: problems with amrecover

2003-12-30 Thread jessica blackburn
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 08:53, Josh Welch wrote: > jessica blackburn said: > > > > I am trying to backup a windows file system. i have it mounted so i can > > see the files are in a directory on the linux side. however, when i try > > to back them up i am getting this error. is there any suggestio

RE: problems with amrecover

2003-12-30 Thread Josh Welch
jessica blackburn said: > yes i can use the amtape command and i am also sure that the correct > tape is loaded. the most recent error that i am now getting is as > follows: > > FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: > > > /-- hccweb /TestNT/test lev 0 STRANGE > sendbackup: start [hccweb:/TestNT/t

RE: problems with amrecover

2003-12-30 Thread Josh Welch
jessica blackburn said: > > I am trying to backup a windows file system. i have it mounted so i can > see the files are in a directory on the linux side. however, when i try > to back them up i am getting this error. is there any suggestions? > > Extracting files using tape drive file:/backup/ o

Re: problems with amrecover

2003-12-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 29 December 2003 12:27, jessica blackburn wrote: >On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 11:44, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:13:18AM -0500, jessica blackburn wrote: >> > > > > Err, amrecover is a recovery tool (hence the name) not a >> > > > > backup tool. >> > > > >> > > > i'm a bit f

Re: problems with amrecover

2003-12-29 Thread jessica blackburn
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 11:44, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:13:18AM -0500, jessica blackburn wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Err, amrecover is a recovery tool (hence the name) not a backup tool. > > > > > > > > i'm a bit frazzeled and met to say recover. do you have any ideas as to >

Re: problems with amrecover

2003-12-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:13:18AM -0500, jessica blackburn wrote: > > > > > > > > Err, amrecover is a recovery tool (hence the name) not a backup tool. > > > > > > i'm a bit frazzeled and met to say recover. do you have any ideas as to > > > why its not working? > > > > Please post your respon

Re: problems with amrecover

2003-12-29 Thread jessica blackburn
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 11:02, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 10:53am, jessica blackburn wrote > > On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 10:51, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 10:42am, jessica blackburn wrote > > > > > > > I am trying to backup a windows file system. i

Re: problems with amrecover

2003-12-29 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 10:53am, jessica blackburn wrote > On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 10:51, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 10:42am, jessica blackburn wrote > > > > > I am trying to backup a windows file system. i have it mounted so i can > > > see the files are in a directory on

Re: problems with amrecover

2003-12-29 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 10:42am, jessica blackburn wrote > I am trying to backup a windows file system. i have it mounted so i can > see the files are in a directory on the linux side. however, when i try > to back them up i am getting this error. is there any suggestions? Not really necessary

Re: Problems with amrecover and file path

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
Christoffer Dahl Petersen wrote: Now I have a poster hanging above my desk saying: "Man of the day: Paul Bijnens" :-) :-) I tried your "workaround nr. 1", but it didnt work, but it gave me a Strange, "it works when I do it". I just tried: amrecover> ls 2003-07-24 . 2003-07-14 help/ 2003-07

Re: Problems with amrecover and file path

2003-10-14 Thread Christoffer Dahl Petersen
tir, 2003-10-14 kl. 15:34 skrev Paul Bijnens: Workaround: setdisk /home/files (or whatever your DLE is named) cd *MAGS (or "??MAGS": use a wildcard as args to cd) Workaround nr 2: amrestore -p ... | tar -xvf - './ MAGS/some/file' (While panicking, it is maybe wiser to restore into a

Re: Problems with amrecover and file path

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
Christoffer Dahl Petersen wrote: I should recover some files from a directory, but I can't get into the directory. The path is: /home/files/\ \ MAGS/ or "/home/files/ MAGS/", here is what I do: #amrecover daily amrecover> setdisk /home/files/\ \ MAGS Mount point "\" invalid - must start with

Re: Problems with amrecover

2003-06-15 Thread Jason P.Pickering
First of all, thanks for your help Jon. On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Hi, the body of you message refers to dumping and flushing. > Why a subject about amrecover??? Oops..this was before my first cup of coffee this morning. ;-) Indeed, the title of my mail should be "Problems with

Re: Problems with amrecover

2003-06-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:50:18AM +0800, Jason P.Pickering wrote: > Hello amanda users... > Hi, the body of you message refers to dumping and flushing. Why a subject about amrecover??? > > This problem has happened several time to me, and I > have trawled through the archives here, but haven'

Re: Problems with amrecover

2002-06-23 Thread Jesús Moya
thanks for replaying!! :) Well, my disklist: # sample Amanda2 disklist file, derived from CS.UMD.EDU's disklist # # If your configuration is called, say, "csd2", then this file normally goes # in /etc/amanda/csd2/disklist. # # File format is: # # hostname diskdev dumptype [spindle [interfa

Re: Problems with amrecover

2002-02-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 at 6:00pm, Jesús Moya wrote > Yes, i understand, i was making a test backup in > /home/compartido/Alberto/mp3_einar. I was wrong, ok > > We have been using tar 1.13.17. I'm going to download and compile tar > 1.13.19, thanks again :) > Hmm, I *thought* 1.13.17 would work a

Re: Problems with amrecover

2002-02-27 Thread Jesús Moya
Thank you very much. Yes, i understand, i was making a test backup in /home/compartido/Alberto/mp3_einar. I was wrong, ok We have been using tar 1.13.17. I'm going to download and compile tar 1.13.19, thanks again :) Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 at 4:10pm, Jesús Moya wro

Re: Problems with amrecover

2002-02-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 at 4:10pm, Jesús Moya wrote > thanks for replaying!! :) > > Well, my disklist: > > mordor.nuevomundo.es /home/compartido/Alberto/mp3_einar/ user-tar > Then you need to 'setdisk /home/compartido/Alberto/mp3_einar' to get amrecover to "mount" the right disk. *However*...

Re: Problems with amrecover

2002-02-27 Thread Jesús Moya
thanks for replaying!! :) Well, my disklist: # sample Amanda2 disklist file, derived from CS.UMD.EDU's disklist # # If your configuration is called, say, "csd2", then this file normally goes # in /etc/amanda/csd2/disklist. # # File format is: # # hostname diskdev dumptype [spindle [interfa

Re: Problems with amrecover

2002-02-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 at 12:39pm, Jesús Moya wrote > Well, we have tried this but with no result. Here is the output of the > process: > > machine:/home # /usr/local/sbin/amrecover nuevomundo > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on machine ... > 220 machine AMANDA index server (2.4.2p2)

Re: Problems with amrecover

2002-02-27 Thread Jesús Moya
Well, we have tried this but with no result. Here is the output of the process: machine:~ # cd /home machine:/home # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 8.2G 4.3G 3.5G 55% / /dev/sda1 23M 4.5M 17M 21% /boot /dev/sdb1

Re: Problems with amrecover

2002-02-26 Thread Frederic Saincy
Hi! Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nothing, other than that you probably weren't in the root of a disklist > entry when you ran amrecover. Use 'setdisk' to tell amrecover what disk > you want to retrieve files from. I wonder something: If disklist entries are directories

Re: Problems with amrecover

2002-02-26 Thread Doug Silver
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Jesús Moya wrote: > Hi!. We have a problem with amrecover: > > When we use it, we obtain this message: > > machine:/home # /usr/local/sbin/amrecover daily > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on machine ... > 220 machine AMANDA index server (2.4.2p2)

Re: Problems with amrecover

2002-02-26 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 at 6:27pm, Jesús Moya wrote > 200 Dump host set to machine.domain.es. > Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD > amrecover> > > what is our problem? Nothing, other than that you probably weren't in the root of a disklist entry when you ran amrecover. Use 'setdisk'

Re: Problems with amrecover on Linux clients and Solaris Tape server

2001-12-07 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
--- Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 at 4:04pm, José Vicente Núñez > Zuleta wrote > > > Error #1: I ran amrecover on the tape server and > get > > some "index not found errors": > > > Obvious question: Is indexing turned on. Do your > index files exist? W

Re: Problems with amrecover on Linux clients and Solaris Tape server

2001-12-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 at 4:04pm, José Vicente Núñez Zuleta wrote > Error #1: I ran amrecover on the tape server and get > some "index not found errors": > Obvious question: Is indexing turned on. Do your index files exist? What do the contents look like? > [root@lnxsrv0001 /root]# amrecover NEW

Re: Problems with amrecover

2001-10-19 Thread Jens Rohde
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Marc W. Mengel wrote: Hej > Your amidxtape service is running amidxtaped as some user-id which > you can discover in your inetd.conf file (which should be your > amanda user you configured when it was built). Check. The user is called amanda - surprise, surprise :) > That

Re: Problems with amrecover

2001-10-18 Thread Marc W. Mengel
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Jens Rohde wrote: > I'm stuck! - I've tried to get amrecover to work. There's no problem in > selecting host, disk and files to recover, but when I try to do the actual > recover I get the following error: > ... > The debug file contains: ... > amrestore: could not open tape

Re: Problems with amrecover

2001-10-18 Thread Jens Rohde
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Sorry to sound like "is it plugged in", but this is a directive > to you, did you actually load tape EOS-011 at this point, before > you typed "y"? *grin* - it might just have been the answer :) - but no. The tape was loaded at that point :) > Access ri

Re: Problems with amrecover

2001-10-18 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:05:46PM +0200, Jens Rohde wrote: > Hi > > I'm stuck! - I've tried to get amrecover to work. There's no problem in > selecting host, disk and files to recover, but when I try to do the actual > recover I get the following error: > > amrecover> extract > > Extracting fi

Re: Problems with amrecover/index/amcheck after tape problems

2001-07-26 Thread Chr. Rossmanith
I've pressed the "send" button too quickly and sent the answer to John only - here is a copy for the mailing list... Christina > Hi John, > > "John R. Jackson" wrote: > > > >This is the content of our tapelist file. I think it should have more than > > >one line?!? > > > > > >20010725 NEURO007

Re: Problems with amrecover/index/amcheck after tape problems

2001-07-25 Thread John R. Jackson
>This is the content of our tapelist file. I think it should have more than >one line?!? > >20010725 NEURO007 reuse Ooops. You've lost your tapelist file, which is a very bad thing. That's why Amanda is asking about new tapes and complaining about backups being overwritten. It's also why I make

Re: Problems with amrecover/index/amcheck after tape problems

2001-07-25 Thread Chr. Rossmanith
Hi John, thank you for your quick response. This night the backup was finished successfully but it tells a lot of overwriting backups on previous tapes. I've attached just the NOTES section from tonights mail: NOTES: planner: Last full dump of neuroserver:/home2 on tape NEURO001 overwritten in

Re: Problems with amrecover/index/amcheck after tape problems

2001-07-24 Thread John R. Jackson
>I'd like to recover a file from the backup using amrecover. >Unfortunately amrecover tells me, that there is no index available for >the given disk/date/host. BUT: As fas as I can see, there are all index >files in the index directory /usr/adm/amanda... OK, let's tackle this problem first. It w