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Re: amrecover without /var/log/amanda*

2003-03-26 11:15:06
Subject: Re: amrecover without /var/log/amanda*
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:56:13 -0500
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:55:26PM +0100, Nicki Messerschmidt wrote:
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> Hi,
> I just upgraded amanda 2.4.2p2 to amanda 2.4.4 and then I started some
> testing. Backup was no problem, but I'm not able to do any recovery
> using amrecover, because it states that it cannont find any indices for
> the selected host. After some testing I pinned the problem to my lost
> /var/log/amanda/$config dir... 
> Is there any possibility to continue using my old
> /var/lib/amanda/$config/index files without this logdir?

Presumably you know which was the last tape(s) used under 2.4.2p2.
That would contain the logdir almost upto date.
Perhaps you could do an amrestore of that DLE to an empty space
and copy over the old logs.

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Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
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