Hi Guys, I am running amanda on a linux cluster. The backup reports no errors but when I try to restore amanda tells me that the requested file is not on the tape (It should be there since I can see it with the "ls" command under amrecover). Following is the amidxtaped.debug report:
amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 4738 ruid 33 euid 33 start time Wed Nov 27 11:06:18 2002 amidxtaped: version 2.4.3b3 > SECURITY USER root bsd security: remote host localhost.localdomain user root local user amanda amandahosts security check passed > 6 amrestore_nargs=6 > -h > -p > /dev/nst0 > node16 > ^/home$ > 20021123 Ready to execv amrestore with: path = /usr/local/sbin/amrestore argv[0] = "amrestore" argv[1] = "-h" argv[2] = "-p" argv[3] = "/dev/nst0" argv[4] = "node16" argv[5] = "^/home$" argv[6] = "20021123" amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20021123 label DMP004 amrestore: 1: skipping node9._scratch.20021123.1 amrestore: 2: skipping node12._scratch.20021123.1 amrestore: 3: skipping node14._scratch.20021123.1 amrestore: 4: skipping node2._scratch.20021123.1 amrestore: 5: skipping node6._scratch.20021123.1 amrestore: 6: skipping node17._scratch.20021123.1 amrestore: 7: skipping node7._scratch.20021123.1 amrestore: 8: skipping node8._scratch.20021123.2 amrestore: 9: skipping node11._scratch.20021123.1 amrestore: 10: skipping node13._scratch.20021123.1 amrestore: 11: skipping node5._scratch.20021123.1 amrestore: 12: skipping node10._scratch.20021123.1 amrestore: 13: skipping node4._scratch.20021123.2 amrestore: 14: skipping node3._scratch.20021123.2 amrestore: 15: restoring node16._home.20021123.0 incomplete distance tree gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated Error 32 (Broken pipe) offset 1150746624+32768, wrote 0 amrestore: pipe reader has quit in middle of file. amidxtaped: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2 Rewinding tape: done amidxtaped: pid 4738 finish time Wed Nov 27 12:08:57 2002 What went wrong? Thanks for your help. Axel -- Axel Haenssen Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
