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.
