When I use amrecover to recover file, if the tape that contains those files isn't in the drive, it will crap out even though it asks me if I want to mount that tape, and I said Yes. It seems like 'amrecover' forgets to issue load tape command after it determins which tape it needs. It just goes to the tape drive, and tries to retrieve the file without checking for correct tape, or mounting the correct tape first. The output from amrecover and amidxtaped is pasted below. It gives out these error because I have the wrong tape in the drive and 'amrecover' didn't even issue a 'reject' command to the drive. If I dont know have any tape in the drive, it simply returns a "UNKNOWN FILE amrecover: Can't read file header" error. Anyone has solution to this? I sure hope 'amrecover' doesn't require me to load the tape manually.
regards, Mark amrecover output: ------- amrecover> add sem.e Added /sem.e amrecover> extract Extracting files using tape drive /dev/rmt/0bn on host frey. The following tapes are needed: E17900 Restoring files into directory /opt/backup Continue? [Y/n]: Load tape E17900 now Continue? [Y/n/t]: EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on frey. amrecover: short block 0 bytes UNKNOWN file amrecover: Can't read file header extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 Continue? [Y/n]: amrecover> ------------------ amidxtaped output: ---------------------- amandahosts security check passed > 6 amrestore_nargs=6 > -h > -p > /dev/rmt/0bn > frey > ^/opt/backup$ > 20020226 Ready to execv amrestore with: path = /usr/local/sbin/amrestore argv[0] = "amrestore" argv[1] = "-h" argv[2] = "-p" argv[3] = "/dev/rmt/0bn" argv[4] = "frey" argv[5] = "^/opt/backup$" argv[6] = "20020226" amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: reached end of information amidxtaped: amrestore terminated normally with status: 1 Rewinding tape: done amidxtaped: pid 12778 finish time Thu Feb 28 16:32:56 2002 --------------------
