Hi, 
first of all try 

mt rewind -f /dev/nst0

on the tapeserver for each tape you insert
and see if amrecover is happy then.
Christoph

Jos� schrieb:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i have amanda 2.4.2p2 installed on debian potato 2.2r3
> all dumps runs fine but now that i need to restore urgently something is broken !!!!
> 
> here we go :
> 
> amrecover -C uis -s backserver -t backserver -d /dev/nst0
> 
> followed by:
> >setdate some_date
> >sethost some_host
> >setdisk /something
> >add file1
> >Added /something/file1
> >extract
> 
> the result:
> 
> Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host backserver
> The following tapes are needed: mytape01
>                                                     mytape02
> 
> Restoring files into directory /restore
> Continue? [Y/n]: Y
> Load tape mytape01 now
> Continue? [Y/n]: Y
> EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on backserver
> amrecover: short block 0 bytes
> UNKNOWN file
> amrecover: Can't read file header
> extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
> Continue? [Y/n]: Y
> Load tape mytape02 now
> Continue? [Y/n]: Y
> EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on backserver.
> amrecover: short block 0 bytes
> UNKNOWN file
> amrecover: Can't read file header
> extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
> Continue? [Y/n]: Y
> amrecover>
> 
> the file amidxtaped.debug is not present in my system, any compile option to have it 
>??
> also i tried other "setdate" to amanda to reclaim other tapes but the problem 
>remains the same even with other tapes
> 
> really need help !
> thx in advance for any ideas.

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