When I ran 2.4.3b4, I was able to read from the tapes via amadmin, mt, and 
dd piped to gtar.  Amrestore was not able to read the tapes, it kept
complaining about "error reading file header".

So, I thought moving up to the current stable 2.4.3 version would fix the 
amrestore problems.  It didn't.  And this time, the manual process of 
using the unix cmd line tools didn't even get me the content *supposedly* 
on the tapes as reported by amadmin.

The last version I used which worked well was 2.4.3b3.  So I put that 
version back in and now it doesn't get the estimates from it's own local disks 
but it can get the estimates from all the other remote clients.

log.1 has lines for each of the failed filesystems:
FAIL planner hostname /disk/blah/restore 20030218 0 [missing result for 
/disk/blah/restore in hostname response]

I could put the other dozen filesystems listed in the logs here..kinda 
redundant tho.

I am running out of ideas...

thanks
robin



On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 at 2:25pm, rwong AT mrs.mni.mcgill DOT ca wrote
> 
> > I still haven't been able to determine why amanda reports success after 
> > amdumps while amrecover still cannot read the file headers on the tapes.
> 
> Can you read them manually?  What amanda version?
> 
> > Does anyone know why when I downgrade, the local host's filesystems being 
> > backed up fail with "missing estimates"?
> 
> Again, versions and log files would be helpful here.
> 
>