hmm, didn't specify either of those in configure when I built Amanda 3.3.3. However, now that you
mention amanda-client.conf, I went and looked for that. Turns out they were both specified there (I
originally rsynced /usr/local/etc/amanda/ to the new server and then went about modifying stuff to
set it up). However, changing the entries there and then running amrecover didn't seem to change
anything.
So, I tried `setdevice -h localhost /dev/nst0`, but it tells me it cannot talk to the tape server
[request failed: timeout waiting for ACK].
I also tried
chrisho@supereclogite:/amanda1$ sudo amrecover -s localhost -t localhost -d /dev/nst0 -h
eclogite.geo.umass.edu -C daily
AMRECOVER Version 3.3.3. Contacting server on localhost ...
[request failed: timeout waiting for ACK]
Totally puzzled, because the Amanda backups seems to have been running flawlessly. I can access the
tape drive with mt and the changer with mtx, and Amanda has been writing stuff to tapes.
As I mentioned in my reply to Brian, I'm going to have to change my workflow to recover stuff for
the Solaris client. But, I'll still need to resolve some of these issues, because the old Amanda
server might have stuff in its configuration and files that make it think it is still the server.
On 6/17/13 2:04 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
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.
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