> I've got amanda serwer 2.4.2p2 on freebsd 4.4rc5 and amanda client
> on linux RH7.0 and freebsd 3.4 release.
> There isn't a lot of data to backup, only 2 GB from every host.
> Backup is done every night, starting from cron.
> Streamer is 40/80GB Tandberg DLT1, I've only one tape.

Go buy some more tapes - if writing to this single tape fails you will
be lost with no backup

> In my opinion amanda should write next backup on tape just after the
> previous, so on one tape 80 GB there is a lot of place for lets say
> 4 backups.
> But when I run amrecover and type setdate ---21 (today is 23 )
> amrecover says:
> 200 Working date set to 2001-10-21.
> No index records for cwd on new date
> Setting cwd to mount point
> 
> But in directory /usr/local/amanda/DailySet1/index/"hostname"/"partition"
> ther is a lot of files like: 20011023_2.gz 20011022_2.gz 20011021_2.gz
> all in mode 600.
> So why amrecover says that there is no indexes,
> and I can't recover from few days earlier?

Did you type "sethost <hostname>" and "setdisk <partition>" in
amrecover?

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