RE: amrestore problems, could not stat file

Frank Smith said snip tapedev file:/backup/ # the no-rewind tape device to be used I've never used the file driver in production, only played with it a little, but I think this needs to be a file, not a directory. Perhaps someone else can clarify this. More comments way below. Looking at

Re: amrestore problems, could not stat file

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:03:23PM -0600, Josh Welch wrote: tapedev file:/backup/ # the no-rewind tape device to be used I've never used the file driver in production, only played with it a little, but I think this needs to be a file, not a directory. Perhaps someone else can clarify

Re: amrestore problems, could not stat file

Frank Smith wrote: --On Friday, December 12, 2003 12:38:26 -0500 jessica blackburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my amanda.conf file: ... tpchanger chg-multi # the tape-changer glue script tapedev file:/backup/ # the no-rewind tape device to be used I've never used the file driver in

Re: amrestore problems, could not stat file

Here is my amanda.conf file: org DailySet1 # your organization name for reports mailto amanda # space separated list of operators at your site dumpuser amanda # the user to run dumps under inparallel 4# maximum dumpers that will run in parallel netusage 600

Re: amrestore problems, could not stat file

--On Friday, December 12, 2003 12:38:26 -0500 jessica blackburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my amanda.conf file: org DailySet1 # your organization name for reports mailto amanda # space separated list of operators at your site dumpuser amanda # the user to run

amrestore problems, could not stat file

I am very new to this amanda system and am trying to run amrecover. here is what I start with: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RECOVER]# /usr/sbin/amrecover -C DailySet1 -s hccweb AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3. Contacting server on hccweb ... 220 hccweb AMANDA index server (2.4.3) ready. 200 Access OK Setting

Re: amrestore problems, could not stat file

--On Thursday, December 11, 2003 15:21:19 -0500 jessica blackburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am very new to this amanda system and am trying to run amrecover. here is what I start with: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RECOVER]# /usr/sbin/amrecover -C DailySet1 -s hccweb AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3.

Re: amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

Hi again. Quick summary of the thread: Replaced the tape drive in backup server. After that, got problems with amrestore: The backup ran for the first time tonight. The output that amdump sent me after the backup looked entirely normal, and also I could restore some files from the tape with

Re: amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

Hi, AFAIK you'll have to rewind the tape explicitly between amdump and amverify, as neither amdump nor amverify do that for you. Christoph Toomas Aas schrieb: Hi again. Quick summary of the thread: Replaced the tape drive in backup server. After that, got problems with amrestore: The

Re: amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

Hi! Christoph Scheeder wrote: AFAIK you'll have to rewind the tape explicitly between amdump and amverify, as neither amdump nor amverify do that for you. Christoph I tried running mt rewind and then amverify from command line. Still the same errors... -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

Toomas Aas wrote: Hi again. amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: reached end of information ** No header 0+0 in 0+0 out Whenever (very seldomly)I get the not at start of tape error, I ran the vtblc program that lists the contents of the

Re: amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

Hi! Yesterday, I wrote about my problems after replacing the tape drive: The backup ran for the first time tonight. The output that amdump sent me after the backup looked entirely normal, and also I could restore some files from the tape with amrecover. However, amverify is not happy (see

amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

Hello! Please CC: any possible replies to me. I sent subscribe request a couple of hours ago, but nothing seems to have happened yet. I'm running Amanda 2.4.3b4 on FreeBSD 4.7. And yes, I understand that 'b' means beta. Yesterday I replaced the tape drive in the backup server. The old drive

Re: amrestore problems

I guess it really was a permission problem. I added read permission to all on the tape device and I can extract files now. Anyone know why this is necessary? Permissions on the devices were: crw-rw1 root disk 9, 128 Aug 30 2001 /dev/nst0 and amanda ia member of the 'disk'

RE: amrestore problems

Maybe /dev/ait2 != /dev/nst0 ? amrestore: could not open tape /dev/ait2: Permission denied snip $ ls -l /dev/nst0 crw-rw1 root disk 9, 128 Aug 30 2001 /dev/nst0 I can read for the tape with dd: $ mt -f /dev/ait2 fsf 1; dd if=/dev/ait2 bs=32k count=1 AMANDA:

Re: amrestore problems

On Jan 31, 2001, Sandra Panesso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /amanda_holding/20001215/duchamp.tomandandy._Local_Users.0.1 | tar xvf duchamp.tomandandy._Local_Users.0.1 but I got two errors : amrestore: 0: skipping cont dumpfile: date 20001215 host duchamp.tomandandy.com disk /Local/Users lev 0

amrestore problems

hello everybody: I need to restore a data that it is my holding disk but I couldn't. My holding disk is /amanda_holding and my amanda data in there is 20001215/duchamp.tomandandy._Local_Users.0.1. I tried amrestore -p /amanda_holding/20001215/duchamp.tomandandy._Local_Users.0.1 | tar xvf

amrestore problems

hello everybody; I'm sorry for my last question maybe it was not clear. so i'm going to try again. I am trying to use amrestore to restore a data that i have in my holding disk area. How can i do that?. Also I would like to know if somebody knows about cont_dumpfile in compares to a dumpfile.