Hi Toralf,

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:09:56AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
> As far as I can't tell, amrecover won't work unless
> 
>   1. Log file from the backup you are trying to recover is still present

The log are needed to find which dump are on which tape and where on that tape.

>   2. DLE is still in the disklist

That's what amanda use, but for some command (eg, amrecover, amadmin find, ...)
it should build its disklist dynamicaly from the log file? That will help
a lot if you remove an entry from your disklist.

> Why? Shouldn't amrecover work from the index alone?

Having an index doesn't mean that the dump is somewhere.

Jean-Louis
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