The default index and tape server are set when amanda is compiled, at
the configure step.
You can overwrite the default different ways:
amrecover -s ... -t ... (man amrecover)
add them to amanda-client.conf (man amanda-client.conf)
you can also change the tape server inside amrecover:
setdevice [[-h tape-server] tapedev] (help command inside
amrecover)
You can't change the index server inside amrecover.
jean-Louis
On 06/17/2013 01:47 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
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.
