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Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>> I just upgraded amanda 2.4.2p2 to amanda 2.4.4 and then I started
>> some testing. Backup was no problem, but I'm not able to do any
>> recovery using amrecover, because it states that it cannont find any
>> indices for the selected host. After some testing I pinned the
>> problem to my lost /var/log/amanda/$config dir...
>> Is there any possibility to continue using my old
>> /var/lib/amanda/$config/index files without this logdir?
> I'm a little confused as to what exactly happened.  Was your 2.4.2p2
> install using /var/log/amanda/$config as the logdir and
> /var/lib/amanda/$config/index as the indexdir?  And then
> /var/log/amanda got erased?
> If that's the case, I think you're out of luck.  I believe that
> amrecover needs the logfiles to locate the proper indices and/or
> tapes.  You can still look at 'em by hand, though.
I was lucky and it deleted only copies and I am lucky and still owned
the the originals... *beinghappy*

Thanks a lot!


Cheers
Nicki

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