I was more than a little dismayed today to find that all of the backups I have been doing are not recoverable. I needed to restore some files today, and at this stage it looks like I am out of options.
The client is i386 rh7.1 running the amanda-2.4.2p2 clients as installed from the rh RPM. The server is sparc rh6.2 running the amanda-2.4.2p2 as compiled from source. All the backups appear to have been working fine. The tape drive is an Exabyte 8505 in a 10 slot jukebox. All backups have been written using client compressed tar. I can move around the backups on tape using mt and the amanda headers look fine, but if I try to recover anything I get a decompression error shortly into the file. I have used dd to copy the file to disk first and get the same result. It doesn't seem to matter what I try, the backups are not usable. Any comments would be much appreciated. As my first step, I have turned off compression of the backups and will try another backup tonight and a recovery tommorrow. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Glen and Rosanne Eustace, GodZone Internet Services, a division of AGRE Enterprises Ltd., P.O. Box 8020, Palmerston North, New Zealand 5301 Ph/Fax: +64 6 357 8168, Mob: +64 21 424 015
