On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:10:52PM +0100, Toralf Lund wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:31:04PM +0100, Toralf Lund wrote:
> >> I'm getting error message
> >>
> >>   No index records for disk for specified date
> >>
> >> when trying to recover a certain DLE using amrecover (version 2.4.3.)
> >The
> >> full output from the session + some of the debug messages are included
> >> below. The index looks good to me;
> [ ... ]
> 
> >An index file doesn't mean that the backup is still available.
> Really?
> 
> >What's the output of 'amadmin ks find mercedes-benz /usr/people/jfo'?
> Trying this helped me figure out what was wrong ;-) The command would list 
> the expected dates and tape names when executed as root, but as amanda, I 
> got "No dump to list", which made it quite obvious that the permissions of 
> some file required were wrong (I suspected that all along, but I wasn't 
> able to spot the exact problem earlier.) It then turned out that tapelist 
> was no longer readable by amanda, for some reason. After a simple chmod, I 
> was able to restore the backup correctly.
> 
> Question: Why didn't amrecover or the amindexd log tell me that the 
> tapelist was unreadable?
> 
If you ran amrecover as amanda-user, why didn't it tell you:

        $ amrecover
        amrecover: amrecover must be run by root

jon
> - Toralf
> 
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