Re: downgrading
2003-02-18 17:24:36
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 at 4:00pm, rwong AT mrs.mni.mcgill DOT ca wrote
> When I ran 2.4.3b4, I was able to read from the tapes via amadmin, mt, and
> dd piped to gtar. Amrestore was not able to read the tapes, it kept
> complaining about "error reading file header".
>
> So, I thought moving up to the current stable 2.4.3 version would fix the
> amrestore problems. It didn't. And this time, the manual process of
> using the unix cmd line tools didn't even get me the content *supposedly*
> on the tapes as reported by amadmin.
I'd be interested in any debug files left in /tmp/amanda/ corresponding to
your amrestore problems. I've used amrecover with 2.4.2p2, 2.4.3, and
2.4.4b1 (this morning) with no problems -- it can work.
> The last version I used which worked well was 2.4.3b3. So I put that
> version back in and now it doesn't get the estimates from it's own local
> disks
> but it can get the estimates from all the other remote clients.
>
> log.1 has lines for each of the failed filesystems:
> FAIL planner hostname /disk/blah/restore 20030218 0 [missing result for
> /disk/blah/restore in hostname response]
And what's in /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug or /tmp/amanda/amandad*debug for
those backups?
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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