On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:03:02AM -0600, Josh More wrote:
>
> >>* Oddly, when you've navigated to what you want to restore, add it,
> >> and extract it, it does the extract from the disk level, not the
> >> directory you were in when you added it. Not a big problem, but
> >> it caused a wee b
>>* The hostname that amanda detects on SCO Openserver does not match the
>> hostname that is reported by 'hostname' or 'uname -a'.
>
>Can you post an example? This might be simple calling the wrong routine
>on SCO to get the host name (more OS differences as mentioned above).
uname -a
SCO_SV c
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:44:50PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >* amrecover does not rewind the tape for you. I'm sure that there
> > is a good reason for this, but I don't know what it is. You have
> > to rewind the tape first, then run the command.
>
> The normal mode for amrecover (actu
>* amrecover does not rewind the tape for you. I'm sure that there
> is a good reason for this, but I don't know what it is. You have
> to rewind the tape first, then run the command.
The normal mode for amrecover (actually, amrestore, which it calls)
is to do a linear scan of the tape searchi
This was going to be a big long email about how things weren't working,
but the recover program didn't work because I didn't rewind the tape
before running it. More "gotcha's" for SCO Openserver 5, so that they
can make into the list archive and potentially help others:
* amrecover does not rewin
