Amanda-Users

Re: 3rd time's the charm? Please help...amrecover problem?

2003-06-12 12:24:56
Subject: Re: 3rd time's the charm? Please help...amrecover problem?
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:22:09 -0400
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:48:03AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 at 9:38am, Glenn Sieb wrote
> 
> > I'm in a bind here.. I'm totally stuck and I was supposed to get these 
> > files restored 3 days ago. If I'm in the wrong place, if I'm missing some 
> > obvious thing, or if I've left out any information needed to troubleshoot 
> > this properly, please let me know. I'm stuck here. :(
> 
> To just get the files off now (and not debug amrecover) use amrestore 
> (or dd) to get the whole image off the tape, and grab the mailbox that you 
> need out of that.  As the perl people like to say, TMTOWTDI.
> 
> There should be some other logs, dealing specifically with the tape 
> operations.  Also, any errors in the system logs?

Also, from your session replay it appears you are doing this remotely.
If so, there should be additional logs on the tape server.
Any firewall issues?

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