Thanks! Now I have valid index file I think. Now my problem is with amrecover.
indexfile is /usr/adm/amanda/home/index/mac-pbG3.orthodontists.info/_/20010916_0.gz When I sit as root on the client machine mac-pbG3 and run ssh -1 buddies /usr/sbin/amrecover mac-pbG3_full root@buddies's password: AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on buddies.orthodontists.info ... 220 buddies AMANDA index server (2.4.2p2) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to today (2001-12-12) 200 Working date set to 2001-12-12. 200 Config set to mac-pbG3_full. 200 Dump host set to buddies.orthodontists.info. $CWD '/root' is on disk '/' mounted at '/'. 200 Disk set to /. No index records for disk for specified date If date correct, notify system administrator Invalid directory - /root amrecover> and enter setdate 2001-09-16 setdate 2001-09-16 200 Working date set to 2001-09-16. No index records for cwd on new date Setting cwd to mount point amrecover> Any ideas what I need to stick in here please amrecover? On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 at 1:37pm, ThomasRatliffDDS wrote > > > Is there any FAQ that describes how to Create an Index file from tape? > > > No, but I'll give it a shot. > > In indexdir (as specified in amanda.conf), there's a directory for each > host. In each host's directory, there's a directory for each disk > (subbing '_' for '/'). In each disk directory, there's a gzipped index > file named by the date of the amanda run and the level, e.g. this > morning's level one is 20011212_1.gz. The contents of that file are > generated on the fly by the backup program of choice. If, e.g., you use > tar, then it's a 'tar t'. Actually, the exact command (from > sendbackup*debug) is '/bin/gtar -tf - 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/^\.//' . > > So, piping each backup image through 'tar t' (or the equivalent for > restore) should do it. Remember to skip over the first 32k of each image > on tape, as that's the amanda header. > > Good luck. > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University >
