On Thursday 08 July 2004 14:52, Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
> cngo AT nmsu DOT edu writes:
> - I've got the following error when I run amrecover:
> -
> - ---------
> - amrecover> add dumpdates
> - Added /etc/dumpdates
> - amrecover> extract
> -
> - Extracting files using tape drive 0 on host typha.nmsu.edu.
> - The following tapes are needed: Biology-1
> -
> - Restoring files into directory /home/cngo
> - Continue [?/Y/n]? y
> -
> - Extracting files using tape drive 0 on host typha.nmsu.edu.
> - Load tape Biology-1 now
> - Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? y
> - EOF, check amidxtaped.<timestamp>.debug file on typha.nmsu.edu.
> - amrecover: short block 0 bytes
> - UNKNOWN file
> - amrecover: Can't read file header
> - extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
> - Continue [?/Y/n/r]? y
> - amrecover>
> - ------------
>
>       What are the contents of amidxtaped.<timestamp>.debug?
> That'd probably be most enlightening.

There are several debug and diagnostics files at "/tmp/amanda". They follow 
that convention.  Do you told to amanda to backup the /tmp directory (or / 
filesystem) ? Or maybe your /tmp is full, preveting the creation of the 
file...

>
>       As a guess, I'd say that the tape `Biology-1' wasn't
> loaded when amidxtaped went to try and read from it.  Did you
> see (hear?) the robot load the tape at the after you answered
> yes, and before the above error message occurred.
>
> - That error disappears if I comment out the 'tapedev "0" 'in my
> amanda.conf - file
>
>       The error disappears, but are you able to restore the
> file?
>
> --
> Eric Schnoebelen              eric AT cirr DOT com            
> http://www.cirr.com
> If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four
> tellers?
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