>I am setting up a diskless system with 4.2.2 ...
Huh? Do you mean 2.4.2? And do you mean 2.4.2 or 2.4.2p2?
>and have succeeded in doing
>a backup to the holding disk. The rawtapedev and changerdev are set to
>/dev/null.
Don't use "/dev/null". Use something like "no-such-device". Some
versions of Amanda treat "/dev/null" special as a debugging tool to
literally throw the dump away.
>When I try to amrecover, I get to the stage of 'extract'. At that point
>I get told, "Block size must be a positive integer." ...
That message comes from your restore program, not Amanda, although it's
Amanda that set up the command line for it.
Look at your /tmp/amanda/amrecover*debug file for where it runs the
restore program. There is a *lot* of stuff in that file, but eventually
you'll find something like this (the exact text will be different,
depending on your restore program and what you're trying to restore):
Exec'ing /usr/sbin/restore with arguments:
restore
-xB
/jwilbur/.www/stat503/course.html
/jwilbur/.www/stat503/index.html
Please post this portion. You might also take a look at the man page
for your restore program and see if you can deduce what Amanda did wrong.
Also, I seem to recall this problem quite a while ago. It would not
surprise me to find out it's already fixed in 2.4.2p2.
>EZ
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
