Hi Bernhard! Thanks for your help so far. It's highly appreciated.
On 25 Feb 02 at 22:57 you wrote: > > I can see no problems with DAILY backups, but for some reason > > amrecover doesn't "see" older WEEKLY backups. > [...] > > -rw------- 1 amanda wheel 25574 Jan 18 22:07 20020118_0.gz > > -rw------- 1 amanda wheel 25737 Jan 25 22:07 20020125_0.gz > > -rw------- 1 amanda wheel 25752 Feb 2 14:07 20020201_0.gz > > -rw------- 1 amanda wheel 25796 Feb 8 22:10 20020208_0.gz > > -rw------- 1 amanda wheel 25919 Feb 22 22:12 20020222_0.gz > > What's in these files? The files look OK to me, they just contain the list of files backed up such as: <snip> / /lost+found/ /home/ /usr/ /tmp/ /var/ /var/log/ /var/log/setup/ /var/log/setup/tmp/ /var/log/setup/tmp/ca.key /var/log/setup/tmp/ca.crt.text <snip> > Check their access time when you use amrecover. The access times of older files remain identical to modification times, i.e. the access time does not change when running amrecover. > Look at the directory when you are in > amrecover. One file should be gunzipped lying around. Indeed, the file containing latest backup, 20020222_0.gz is unzipped when amrecover is running. But it seems that older files are not touched. And now for another message: > You didn't issue a "setdate" command. So amrecover shows you the > state of the last backup (Feb 22th). If you'd like to switch to > another backup - issue "setdate --01-25" or "setdate --01-26" to > get a list of the files backed up on Jan 25th. No such luck, I'm afraid. When I issue "setdate --02-08", amrecover replies with: No index records for cwd on new date Setting cwd to mount point And in any case, "history" command should list all backups, as it does with my DAILY backups. BTW, I guess I tripped over something strange in /tmp/amanda/amrecover.debug (line wrapping added by my mail client): ------------------------------------------------------------------- add_dir_list_item: Adding "2002-02-22" "0" "WEEKLY03" "/usr/adm/amanda/WEEKLY/inde x/heerold.raad.tartu.ee/_/20020111_0.gz" add_dir_list_item: Adding "2002-02-22" "0" "WEEKLY03" "/usr/adm/amanda/WEEKLY/inde x/heerold.raad.tartu.ee/_/20020118_0.gz" add_dir_list_item: Adding "2002-02-22" "0" "WEEKLY03" "/usr/adm/amanda/WEEKLY/inde x/heerold.raad.tartu.ee/_/20020125_0.gz" add_dir_list_item: Adding "2002-02-22" "0" "WEEKLY03" "/usr/adm/amanda/WEEKLY/inde x/heerold.raad.tartu.ee/_/20020201_0.gz" add_dir_list_item: Adding "2002-02-22" "0" "WEEKLY03" "/usr/adm/amanda/WEEKLY/inde x/heerold.raad.tartu.ee/_/20020208_0.gz" add_dir_list_item: Adding "2002-02-22" "0" "WEEKLY03" "/usr/adm/amanda/WEEKLY/inde x/heerold.raad.tartu.ee/_/20020222_0.gz" ------------------------------------------------------------------- It seems that for some reason amrecover thinks that all these backups were done to tape "WEEKLY03", although they most definitely were not. Whatever it is, it explains why amrecover doesn't show older backups. It thinks they have been overwritten. Now I have to figure out *why* amanda thinks that all backups were done to the same tape... -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * To define recursion, we must first define recursion.
