Hello, Please let the gods of Amrecover hear my request!
Here is the list of events that I do to get to the certain point of error. $ amrecover config AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on localhost ... 220 yohko AMANDA index server (2.4.2p2) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to today (2002-05-17) 200 Working date set to 2002-05-17. 200 Config set to exa. 200 Dump host set to yohko. Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD amrecover> sethost hostname.ucr.edu 200 Dump host set to hostname.ucr.edu. amrecover> setdisk /dev/hda1 Scanning /dumps/amanda... 200 Disk set to /dev/hda1. amrecover> ls ... file file file file .... so this part i know that the index file is working. Now I am going to attempt to 'add' a file. amrecover> add file Added /vmlinuz.old amrecover> extract Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host localhost. The following tapes are needed: EXA22 (yes the tape is loaded!) Restoring files into directory /root Continue? [Y/n]:Y Load tape EXA22 now Continue? [Y/n]:Y amrecover: error reading tape: Connection reset by peer extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 Continue? [Y/n]:Y and voila.. what the heck!? The tape is loaded, all is well.. until I try to restore. Am I supposed to fast forward the tape to the right index? Or does Amrecover take care of that for me? No where can I find in the man pages that suggest that I should do any sort of mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 6(arbitrary #) or something.. just the usual mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind. Help.. I started to use TAR because of active file system errors that dump was giving me. But I WILL change how my users work on the servers if TAR is a POS! So just to recap: The right tape is in the right drive.(CHECK) The tapedev is /dev/nst0 and is correctly pointed(CHECK) The configuration file has all of its settings correct.(CHECK) I ran an amrestore interactively to make sure that my dumps were working and that my tape wasn't bad. (CHECK) Tons of space on the dump disk (CHECK) /etc/hosts.allow allows amindexd to run (CHECK) I have access to the tapes by 'cat'ing the tape devices (CHECK) Help. (uncheck) Thanks. Tanniel Simonian
