I guess I am doing something wrong here. I would like to find out what it is.
In /tmp/amanda, amrecover creates a file named server.domain.name._.20080114.0.0002048. That file is 55G when I delete it. I have to delete it because at that point the disk is full. This is a backup of the / folder and it is compressed. The folder that is selected for extraction is 4.3G. I have used the lcd command to select the folder where it want the restore to be put. The client and the server are the same machine in this scenario. The amrecover.*.debug file is 2.5M. I will send it to you if that will help. The amrecover session all goes fine. I run it. Select the disk, date, folder that I want, etc. run the extract. Where can I get the complete output of the session? Thanks, -Gordon -----Original Message----- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 3:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Best Amanda Setup for Restores amrecover only write to disk the files you asked for extraction. amrecover extract in the current directory when we executed amrecover (not on /tmp/Amanda), you can use the lcd command to change the cwd. Can you post the complete output of the amrecover session and the complete amrecover.*.debug file. Jean-Louis Gordon J. Mills III wrote: >> Is this simply a case of not realizing that 'amrestore' is generally used >> for complete dle restoration while 'amrecover' is used for individual >> file/directory recovery? >> > > I am beginning to question my sanity here <G>. I am using the amrecover > interface to recover it but it seems that it will first extract the entire > tar'd up dle to /tmp/Amanda before extracting the small folder that I > requested. Am I wrong about that? > If this is the case (and it seems to be what I have experienced) then my > problem is that the entire tar'd up dle will not fit on the partition which > contains /tmp/Amanda/. So to get at this particular folder for this restore > I need to change that default to another drive which does have enough free > space. > > To further clarify, I am running Debian and using the packages in the debian > archive for Amanda. I am using vtapes also. > > Thanks for the help, > Gordon > > >
