On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 at 5:21pm, Arne Hueggenberg wrote
> so as of late im running amanda to make nice shiny backups of all my servers.
> Now ive tried for the first time to actually recover soemthing and lo and
> behold, im running into problems.
Of course. I mean, what are you trying to do, actually *utilize* your
backups?! What are you thinking? ;)
> Load tape ABT451 now
> Continue? [Y/n]:
> EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file.
> amrecover: short block 0 bytes
> UNKNOWN file
> amrecover: Can't read file header
> extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
>
> amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 19204 ruid 502 euid 502 start time Tue Aug 7
*snip*
> amrestore: missing file header block
> amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset
> amrestore: 0: reached end of tape: date ^L
> amidxtaped: amrestore terminated normally with status: 1
> Rewinding tape: done
> amidxtaped: pid 19204 finish time Tue Aug 7 17:18:34 2001
By the looks of things, your tape wasn't rewound when you put it in. Try
'mt rewind'ing the tape, and then try amrecover again.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
