Re: tar, amrecover problems

2002-10-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello James, What's the output of 'amadmin config find'?, amrecover will not use a dump that is not listed. Could you also provide your amindexd.*.debug file. Jean-Louis On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:39:03PM -0400, James Shearer wrote: Hello. I am new to amanda, and recently attempted a test

tar, amrecover problems

2002-10-04 Thread James Shearer
Hello. I am new to amanda, and recently attempted a test recovery using amrecover. Alas, I did not get very far. I recieved the No index records for disk for specified date error, despite having enabled indexing in my amanda.conf. Google turned up alot of hits for this error, one of which

Re: tar, amrecover problems

2002-10-04 Thread Anthony Valentine
I get this error every time I run amrecover from a directory that isn't in my disklist, or from a host that isn't the backup server. Try using the sethost, setdisk, and setdate commands in amrecover. For example: sbs|amv: /tmp sudo amrecover Gemini AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2.

RE: tar, amrecover problems

2002-10-04 Thread James Shearer
I get this error every time I run amrecover from a directory that isn't in my disklist, or from a host that isn't the backup server. Try using the sethost, setdisk, and setdate commands in amrecover. Yep. I've tried that before. It's still no good, as you can see: #

Re: tar, amrecover problems

2002-10-04 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, October 04, 2002 13:39:03 -0400 James Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am new to amanda, and recently attempted a test recovery using amrecover. Alas, I did not get very far. I recieved the No index records for disk for specified date error, despite having enabled

RE: tar, amrecover problems

2002-10-04 Thread James Shearer
I'm not sure editing is a fix. Someone on this list reported that restoring from one of the bad tar archives resulted in the files being OK but the directories were all renamed (I think to big numbers), and that if you knew what the paths were supposed to be you could (with a lot of work)

RE: tar, amrecover problems

2002-10-04 Thread Anthony Valentine
Well, so much for that. . . What do the directories and data look like in your curinfo directory? I don't remember if that tar problem corrupts it also. Anthony On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 10:26, James Shearer wrote: I get this error every time I run amrecover from a directory that isn't

Re: tar, amrecover problems

2002-10-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:26:36PM -0400, James Shearer wrote: I get this error every time I run amrecover from a directory that isn't in my disklist, or from a host that isn't the backup server. Try using the sethost, setdisk, and setdate commands in amrecover. Yep. I've tried