Glad that helped. By default Amanda doesn't keep indexes, though it would seem
to make sense to, I guess to keep from filling disk space. Anyway if you look at
the amanda.conf and go to where the global dumptype is defined you can just
uncomment 'index yes'. Or you can just add it to individual dumptypes if you
only want indexes for some of your dumps.

m.schneider AT dasgip DOT de wrote:

> Hi!
> Thanks for your help.
> The parameters for amrecover are NOT optional and now it works.
> Now the next Problem is, that there is now index, but I think I don´t create
> one.
> Malte
>
> >You might want to specify your tape server, index server and tape device
> when
> >you run amrecover. Is calvin you tape server or the box you are trying to
> >recover to, or both? Try running amrecover with the following args:
>
> >amrecover -C TwiceAWeek -s {index server} -t { tape server} -d {tape
> device}
>
> >so if calvin is your tape server it would look something like
>
> >amrecover -C TwiceAWeek -s calvin -t calvin -d /dev/rmt/0bn   (or whatever
> >your tape device is)
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: BRINER Cedric [mailto:work AT infomaniak DOT ch]
> >Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 4:30 PM
> >To: m.schneider AT dasgip DOT de
> >Cc: _amanda
> >Subject: Re: amrecover
>
> > Hi!
> > We have an Amanda 2.4.0 Server running and want to recover some files.
> > I start
> > amrecover -C TwiceAWeek
> >
> > on the Server, I get a timeout.
> > In the daemon.log :
> >
> > Aug 16 13:47:34 calvin amindexd[31263]: warning: can't get client address:
> > Connection timed out
> > Aug 16 13:47:34 calvin amindexd[31263]: connect from unknown
> > Aug 16 13:49:16 calvin amindexd[31264]: warning: can't get client address:
> > Connection timed out
> > Aug 16 13:49:16 calvin amindexd[31264]: connect from unknown
> >
> > In the .amandahosts I set the localhost to root.
> > What can I do?
> > Malte
> >
> from where are you starting the amrecover...
> for example if you launch amrecover from calvin.domain.com
> the put in your .amandahosts
> calvin.domain.com root
> calvin root
>
> briner
>
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