On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:03:10AM +0100, Das-Purkayastha, Arindam wrote:
> I am trying to dump my files to a holding disk and then restore these files
> from the holding disk on to the client.
>
> when I am running amdump, everything works fine and the files are being
> dumped on to the holding disk. but when I am running amrecover, nothing
> happens.
>
> Can anyone help me out on this.
Amrecover only works if you've got indexing turned on in the
dumptypes section of amanda.conf. A list of files will be generated in
the next dump, so you may want to force a set of level 0 dumps to ensure
a complete file index!
For dumps where you have no index, you'll have to use amrestore to
get the data off the tape. It's not as pretty as amrecover, but it'll
do the job. To get an interactive restore with amrestore, you'll want to
pipe it through restore -i (your native os restore) -- check the amrestore
man page for details.
Hope that helps!
-- Lorrie
