Friends, with the recent posting indicating the need to check backup tapes, I recently ran amverify for the first time. Since I've been running amanda overall less than a month, I've never had to do a restore from the tapes.
On the face of it, the amverify pasted in below looks disastrous. Since this is my first amverify, I have no experience reading and interpreting this report. Is this as bad as it looks? Would I be able to recover anything from these tapes? I know the true test is to try to recover something, which is what I'll do today. Thanks for your thoughts. -Kevin Zembower amanda@admin:~ > amverify DailySet1 No tape changer... Tape device is /dev/nst0... Verify summary to root [EMAIL PROTECTED] Defects file is /tmp/amanda/amverify.10232/defects amverify DailySet1 Thu Jan 17 09:02:49 EST 2002 Using device /dev/nst0 Waiting for device to go ready... Rewinding... Processing label... Volume DailySet125, Date 20020116 Rewinding... Checked cgi.hda1.20020116.1 ** Error detected (centernet.sda1.20020116.1) amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: restoring centernet.sda1.20020116.1 gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file amrestore: 1: reached end of information /sbin/restore: Tape is not a dump tape 64+0 in 64+0 out ** Error detected (mailinglists.hda1.20020116.1) amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: restoring mailinglists.hda1.20020116.1 gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file amrestore: 1: reached end of information /sbin/restore: Tape is not a dump tape 64+0 in 64+0 out ** Error detected (admin.sda1.20020116.1) amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: restoring admin.sda1.20020116.1 amrestore: 1: reached end of information /sbin/restore: Tape is not a dump tape 64+0 in 64+0 out ** Error detected (admin.sdb1.20020116.1) amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: restoring admin.sdb1.20020116.1 amrestore: 1: reached end of information /sbin/restore: Tape is not a dump tape 64+0 in 64+0 out ** Error detected (centernet.sdb2.20020116.1) amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: restoring centernet.sdb2.20020116.1 gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file amrestore: 1: reached end of information /sbin/restore: Tape is not a dump tape 64+0 in 64+0 out ** Error detected (mailinglists.hda7.20020116.1) amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: restoring mailinglists.hda7.20020116.1 gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file amrestore: 1: reached end of information /sbin/restore: Tape is not a dump tape 64+0 in 64+0 out Too many errors. Rewinding... Errors found: DailySet125 (centernet.sda1.20020116.1): amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: restoring centernet.sda1.20020116.1 gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file amrestore: 1: reached end of information /sbin/restore: Tape is not a dump tape 64+0 in 64+0 out DailySet125 (mailinglists.hda1.20020116.1): amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: restoring mailinglists.hda1.20020116.1 gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file amrestore: 1: reached end of information /sbin/restore: Tape is not a dump tape 64+0 in 64+0 out DailySet125 (admin.sda1.20020116.1): amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: restoring admin.sda1.20020116.1 amrestore: 1: reached end of information /sbin/restore: Tape is not a dump tape 64+0 in 64+0 out DailySet125 (admin.sdb1.20020116.1): amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: restoring admin.sdb1.20020116.1 amrestore: 1: reached end of information /sbin/restore: Tape is not a dump tape 64+0 in 64+0 out DailySet125 (centernet.sdb2.20020116.1): amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: restoring centernet.sdb2.20020116.1 gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file amrestore: 1: reached end of information /sbin/restore: Tape is not a dump tape 64+0 in 64+0 out DailySet125 (mailinglists.hda7.20020116.1): amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: restoring mailinglists.hda7.20020116.1 gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file amrestore: 1: reached end of information /sbin/restore: Tape is not a dump tape 64+0 in 64+0 out amanda@admin:~ > ----- E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139
