>So, when I look in the amrecover debug file on the client, I find it's
>trying to execute /sbin/restore. This is wrong, it should be trying to
>execute /usr/sbin/vxrestore. 

Here is the relevant part of the code in recover-src/extract_list.c:

    #if defined(VXDUMP)
        if (strcmp(file.program, VXDUMP) == 0) {
            cmd = stralloc(VXRESTORE);
        }
    #endif

In other words:

  If Amanda was able to find VXDUMP when it was built, and ...

  The dump program name in the header matches what VXDUMP is set to
  **exactly**, then

  Whatever the VXRESTORE symbol is set to will be used.

There are several things that could be wrong here.

  * If you run "strings /path/to/amrecover | grep vxdump", what do you
    get back?  You could also look at /tmp/amanda/amandad*debug to see
    all the configuration values, but there is no guarantee the amandad
    binary matches the amrecover one.

  * Make sure the VXDUMP value matches the path you see in amverify
    **exactly**.

  * If you run "strings /path/to/amrecover | grep vxrestore", what do
    you get back?

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, jrj AT purdue DOT edu