Amanda-Users

Re: Restore error - centos 3/amanda-2.4.5 server - centos4/amanda-2.4.5 client

2005-12-01 13:17:04
Subject: Re: Restore error - centos 3/amanda-2.4.5 server - centos4/amanda-2.4.5 client
From: Tom Brown <tom.brown AT goodtechnology DOT com>
To: Ian Turner <ian AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:06:39 +0000

What OS and dump version was the data backed up from? What OS and dump version are you trying to restore to?

In general, the dump type (xfsdump, vdump, etc.) and sometimes even the version must be the same for backup and restore. This is an unfortunate consequence of Amanda's use of native tools.

the clients that i'm testing at the moment are running CentOS4.2 and the server that did this backup is running CentOS 3.something 6 i think - I'm testing this restore on a server running RH7.3 and this is chucking the error.

I'm currently running a test restore on the same server that did the backup to see if that works -

I'll confirm dump versions shortly