puzzle. If you recall, I switched from Amanda 2.5.1p3 on a Solaris 9 server on an E250 to Amanda
3.3.3 on an Ubuntu 12.04 server on SuperMicro around May 22. The transition seemed to run smoothly.
The old E250 is still running mail services, and the new Amanda server is still
backing that up.
So, now someone wants their mail files recovered from May 26. Cool. Tapes were written by the new
server on that date. But, when I run amrecover, I ran into the situation below. It seems to be
searching for a tape drive on the old server rather than on the new server. Weird. I've been running
Amanda on the new server with the tape library and tape drive on the new server for several weeks
and it has been working just fine as far as the Amanda email reports go. I went through the
amanda.conf, changer.conf, etc. and find no references to any server. It should just be looking for
the devices on the Amanda server that I am running this on.
Any idea what's up with this? And how I can fix it?
I know I can just read the tape using native facilities, but I really don't want to fall back on
that if I don't have to. This should all just work, as it always has in the past.
-------------- attempted amrecover session ---------------
chrisho@supereclogite:/usr/local/adm$ cd /amanda1
chrisho@supereclogite:/amanda1$ sudo amrecover daily
[sudo] password for chrisho:
AMRECOVER Version 3.3.3. Contacting server on eclogite.geo.umass.edu ...
220 eclogite AMANDA index server (2.5.1p3) ready.
Setting restore date to today (2013-06-17)
200 Working date set to 2013-06-17.
200 Config set to daily.
501 Host supereclogite is not in your disklist.
Trying host supereclogite.geo.umass.edu ...
200 Dump host set to supereclogite.geo.umass.edu.
Use the setdisk command to choose dump disk to recover
amrecover> sethost eclogite.geo.umass.edu
200 Dump host set to eclogite.geo.umass.edu.
amrecover> setdisk /var/mail
200 Disk set to /var/mail.
amrecover> setdate --05-26
200 Working date set to 2013-05-26.
amrecover> add cooke
Added file /cooke
amrecover> extract
Extracting files using tape drive LIB-162A5 on host eclogite.geo.umass.edu.
The following tapes are needed: geo-daily-13
Extracting files using tape drive LIB-162A5 on host eclogite.geo.umass.edu.
Load tape geo-daily-13 now
Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? y
could not stat 'LIB-162A5': No such file or directory
Load tape geo-daily-13 now
Continue [?/Y/n/d]? ?
Enter "y"es to continue, "n"o to stop or "d" to change to a new device
Continue [?/Y/n/d]? d
New device name [?]: /dev/nst0
Using tape "/dev/nst0" from server eclogite.geo.umass.edu.
Continue [?/Y/n/d]? y
could not stat '/dev/nst0': No such file or directory
could not stat '/dev/nst0': No such file or directory
Load tape geo-daily-13 now
Continue [?/Y/n/d]? d
New device name [?]: ?
Enter a new device name or "default"
New device name [?]: default
Using default tape from server eclogite.geo.umass.edu.
Continue [?/Y/n/d]? y
Got no header and data from server, check in amidxtaped.*.debug and
amandad.*.debug files on server
amrecover> exit
200 Good bye.
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Chris Hoogendyk
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O__ ---- Systems Administrator
c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments
(*) \(*) -- 347 Morrill Science Center
~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
<[email protected]>
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