On Thursday 17 July 2014 10:41:13 Jean-Louis Martineau did opine And Gene did reply: > On 07/17/2014 09:42 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 17 July 2014 06:26:14 Jean-Louis Martineau did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > >> On 07/17/2014 04:57 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> 1405585016.053992: amrecover: security_getdriver(name=bsd) returns > >>> 0xc37c40 > >> > >> You configured xinetd for bsdtcp auth but amrecover use bsd. > >> > >> Add: > >> auth "bsdtcp" > >> in /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf > >> > >> or '-o auth=bsdtcp' argument to amrecover. > >> > >> Jean-Louis > > > > One last q. It tells me to run amrecover from / > > Who tell that? > You should run amrecover from an empty directory. > amrecover will erase everything in the directory it do the extraction. > > > but when I cd to /home/gene and add two subdirs I need, the prompt > > says the will be extracted into /. > > > > Ahh, lcd does it and lpwd confirms. > > > > But: > > amrecover> extract > > > > Extracting files using tape drive chg-disk on host localhost. > > The following tapes are needed: Dailys-5 > > > > Dailys-6 > > > > Restoring files into directory /home/gene > > Continue [?/Y/n]? Y > > > > Extracting files using tape drive chg-disk on host localhost. > > Load tape Dailys-5 now > > Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? Y > > amrecover - can't talk to tape server: [request failed: Connection > > refused] > > > > Now what? > > good it fail, otherwise /home/gene would be erased.
It is to extract /home/gene/src, and home/gene/linuxcnc, and I am now working in the /home/gene subdir. > Look at the message, is says it connect to 'localhost', you must > specify the tape server, you can do it in amanda-client.conf, in > amrecover argument or by changing the tape device in amrecover. It seems to have the correct device mrecover> sethost coyote Must clear extract list before changing host amrecover> settape coyote.coyote.den:Daily NOTE: 'settape' is deprecated; use setdevice instead. Using tape "Daily" from server coyote.coyote.den. amrecover> setdevice coyote.coyote.den Using tape "coyote.coyote.den". Tape server unspecified, assumed to be coyote.coyote.den. amrecover> setdevice coyote.coyote.den:Daily Using tape "coyote.coyote.den:Daily". Tape server unspecified, assumed to be coyote.coyote.den. Me puzzled. > > Jean-Louis Thank you Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS
