>I still am not getting indexes on my Sun box running Amanda 2.4.1-p1.
>...
>Help? ...
Are you certain you have "index" set to yes? What do you get when you
run "su <amanda-user> -c amadmin <config> disklist <host> <disk>"?
Look at your amanda.conf file and find the indexdir parameter. Look in
that directory. Do you have a subdirectory for each host being backed up?
Within one of those, do you have a subdirectory for each disk being
backed up (the name maybe slightly altered). And within there do you
have a gzip'ed file with a datestamp for a name?
Do the host names match up with what amrecover says it is trying?
Are the permissions and ownership of this tree such that the Amanda
user can get down through it all?
Did you set the correct user in inetd.conf for amindexd such that it
can access this information?
What's in /tmp/amanda/amindexd*debug?
If you have all this directory and file structure, what's in the first
few lines of a typical file, i.e. "zcat XXX.gz | head"?
>Without and index, how do I recover a file? ...
The short answer is, read docs/RESTORE or www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html.
The longer answer is use "amadmin <config> find ..." to find out what
tapes have the images you need and what file on those tapes. Mount them
and use amrestore to pick off the image you want (it's usually faster to
do the fsf yourself), then pipe that across the network to your client
and into the restore program.
>... Can indexes be regenerated?
Not yet. It's harder than you would think because it requires sending
image back to the client and having it regenerate the index and ship it
back to the server.
>Robert
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
