Restoring from virtual tapes
I've restored amanda file systems in the past from tape using amrestore. However, I switched from tapes to vtapes several months ago and am trying to restore a file system. According to the FAQs and posts I saw searching various archives, one wants to use amrecover intead of amrestore for vtapes. Trying to run as user amanda, I am told it has to be run as root. When I run it as root, I get this error: su-2.05b# amrecover -C colos AMRECOVER Version 2.5.0p2. Contacting server on ns1.pil.net ... amrecover: cannot connect to server.mydomain.net: Connection refused I then add the user root to ~amanda/.amandahosts, but it doesn't make a difference: (Partial) cat ~amanda/.amandahosts localhost.mydomain.net amanda server.mydomain.net amanda server.mydomain.net root localhost.mydomain.net root I also tried adding to this config's amanda.conf the following: amrecover_changer file:/path/to/tapedev And it didn't help. What am I missing? TIA, James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am =
Re: Restoring from virtual tapes
What's in the amrecover.*.debug file? Any amandad.*.debug file on ns1.pil.net? What is your xinetd configure on ns1.pil.net for the amandaidx and amidxtaped services? Check your system log for firewall Jean-Louis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've restored amanda file systems in the past from tape using amrestore. However, I switched from tapes to vtapes several months ago and am trying to restore a file system. According to the FAQs and posts I saw searching various archives, one wants to use amrecover intead of amrestore for vtapes. Trying to run as user amanda, I am told it has to be run as root. When I run it as root, I get this error: su-2.05b# amrecover -C colos AMRECOVER Version 2.5.0p2. Contacting server on ns1.pil.net ... amrecover: cannot connect to server.mydomain.net: Connection refused I then add the user root to ~amanda/.amandahosts, but it doesn't make a difference: (Partial) cat ~amanda/.amandahosts localhost.mydomain.net amanda server.mydomain.net amanda server.mydomain.net root localhost.mydomain.net root I also tried adding to this config's amanda.conf the following: amrecover_changer file:/path/to/tapedev And it didn't help. What am I missing? TIA, James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am =
Re: Restoring from virtual tapes
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:19:54AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've restored amanda file systems in the past from tape using amrestore. However, I switched from tapes to vtapes several months ago and am trying to restore a file system. According to the FAQs and posts I saw searching various archives, one wants to use amrecover intead of amrestore for vtapes. Misconception. Either amrestore or amrecover can be used with real or virtual tapes. Typically amrecover is used for an interactive recovery session where a limited number of specific files or directories will be recovered. amrestore is more suited to entire DLE restoration. The docs you were reading were probably focused on a common reason for switching to vtapes, or using vtapes and real tapes in combination. Real tapes are often used for offsite/archive storage. Vtapes, with their high performance, random access, are often the choice for I just deleted a file type recovery. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: Restoring from virtual tapes
Um, never mind...I was able to use amrestore with no problems, and for what I was doing, it was probably better than amrecover anyway. On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OMG, I had those two commented out, because at one time, the amanda server was a client only. It's now the server, and it's been backing up fine with just amandad in there. I just uncommented restarted inetd, but now I get the following: AMRECOVER Version 2.5.0p2. Contacting server on ns1.pil.net ... 220 ns1 AMANDA index server (2.5.0p2) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to today (2007-07-23) 200 Working date set to 2007-07-23. 501 Index directory /var/adm/amanda/colos/index does not exist I assume this is because amandixd never ran on that config. The question now is, can this FS be restored, and if nos, how? Thanks! On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: What is your xinetd configure on ns1.pil.net for the amandaidx and amidxtaped services? Jean-Louis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've restored amanda file systems in the past from tape using amrestore. However, I switched from tapes to vtapes several months ago and am trying to restore a file system. According to the FAQs and posts I saw searching various archives, one wants to use amrecover intead of amrestore for vtapes. Trying to run as user amanda, I am told it has to be run as root. When I run it as root, I get this error: su-2.05b# amrecover -C colos AMRECOVER Version 2.5.0p2. Contacting server on ns1.pil.net ... amrecover: cannot connect to server.mydomain.net: Connection refused I then add the user root to ~amanda/.amandahosts, but it doesn't make a difference: (Partial) cat ~amanda/.amandahosts localhost.mydomain.net amanda server.mydomain.net amanda server.mydomain.net root localhost.mydomain.net root I also tried adding to this config's amanda.conf the following: amrecover_changer file:/path/to/tapedev And it didn't help. What am I missing? TIA, James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am = James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am = James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am =
