Using the official debian packages, I am accustomed to CDing to the desired directory, and entering "amrecover DailySet1". I go through the process with no issue as to which tape device to use and get a good extraction.
Using the git package, I have to specify the tape device like so: amrecover -d chg-disk:/var/amanda/vtapes -C DailySet1 If I don't specify the device, I get: root@amanda:~/tmp/amanda/home# amrecover AMRECOVER Version 3.5.1.git.19364c7b. Contacting server on localhost ... 220 amanda AMANDA index server (3.5.1.git.19364c7b) ready. Setting restore date to today (2019-05-15) 200 Working date set to 2019-05-15. 200 Config set to DailySet1. 200 Dump host set to amanda. Use the setdisk command to choose dump disk to recover amrecover> setdisk /home 200 Disk set to /home. amrecover> add charles Added dir /charles/ at date 2019-05-15-14-17-36 amrecover> extract Extracting files using tape drive tape:/dev/YOUR-TAPE-DEVICE-HERE on host localhost. The following tapes are needed: DailySet1-001 Extracting files using tape drive tape:/dev/YOUR-TAPE-DEVICE-HERE on host localhost. Load tape DailySet1-001 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? y Can't open tape device /dev/YOUR-TAPE-DEVICE-HERE: No such file or directory Load tape DailySet1-001 now Continue [?/Y/n/d]? n Got no header and data from server, check in amidxtaped.*.debug and amandad.*.debug files on server amrecover> exit 200 Good bye. root@amanda:~/tmp/amanda/home# ... -- "When we talk of civilization, we are too apt to limit the meaning of the word to its mere embellishments, such as arts and sciences; but the true distinction between it and barbarism is, that the one presents a state of society under the protection of just and well-administered law, and the other is left to the chance government of brute force." - The Rev. James White, Eighteen Christian Centuries, 1889 Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB https://charlescurley.com
