On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 04:19:26PM +0200, nejat onay erkose wrote: > Hello, > > I am stuck in a very basic step of recovering with amrecover.I tried to > execute amrecover with: (by the way I use file-driver) > > amrecover -C test -d /var/lib/amanda/bande/t12 (where the data that I > want to extract resides in) > > (if i don't put -d /var/lib/amanda/bande/t12, it takes /dev/null as the > default tape device. Am I doing the right thing here?) > > and after running amrecover, I always have to change the disk to > /home/noe (the dumped directoy) via: > setdisk /home/noe > > The only thing I wanted to do is simply to extract some files from this > dump and as it is seen below at the first line, I have added Capture.png > in to the list... > > amrecover> add Capture.png > Added /ReportAmanda/Capture.png > amrecover> list > TAPE test12 LEVEL 0 DATE 2004-04-21 > /ReportAmanda/Capture.pngstill > amrecover> extract list > > Extracting files using tape drive /var/lib/amanda/bande/t12 on host > localhost. > The following tapes are needed: test12 > > Restoring files into directory /home/noe > Continue [?/Y/n]? Y > > Extracting files using tape drive /var/lib/amanda/bande/t12 on host > localhost. > Load tape test12 now
I assume you are using some form of a "changer" for your virtual tapes. Did you follow the request and actually "load tape test12"? > Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? Y This is intended to be answered after you have confirmed tape test12 is available to amrecover. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
