On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 at 6:44am, ThomasRatliffDDS wrote > 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
No. amrecover expects to be run on the host you want the files for, not the tape server. It's going to be looking for the wrong index... > 200 Dump host set to buddies.orthodontists.info. See. Your dump host should be mac-pbG3.orthodontists.info, not buddies. If amrecover doesn't work on OSX, then you can just run it on buddies, but you need to do a 'sethost mac-pbG3.orthodontists.info'. > Any ideas what I need to stick in here please amrecover? I should have added the caveat that I'm not sure if just adding the index files will be enough to make amrecover happy, so there's no guarantee this will work. Do you absolutely *need* amrecover? There are other ways of getting the files off... -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
