--On Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:44:58 -0500 chris weisiger <chrisw AT 
neill DOT net> wrote:

> here is the error i get when i go through the process of restoring something
> 
> amrecover> setdisk /testData
> 
> AGAIN: /data is a seperate partition that is used as the main holding disk
> 
> Scanning /data...
>   lost+found: skipping cruft directory, perhaps you should delete it.
> 200 Disk set to /testData.
> amrecover> ls
> 2003-09-25 .
> 2003-09-25 File1
> 2003-09-25 File2
> amrecover> add File1
> Added /File1
> amrecover> extract
> 
> Extracting files using tape drive 0 on host bs1.
> The following tapes are needed: DailySet13
> 
> Restoring files into directory /var/lib/amanda
> Continue [?/Y/n]? Y
> 
> Extracting files using tape drive 0 on host bs1.
> Load tape DailySet13 now
> Continue [?/Y/n/t]? Y
> EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on bs1.

Is the tape DailySet13 in the drive?
What's in amidxtaped.debug file on bs1 ?

Frank

> amrecover: short block 0 bytes
> UNKNOWN file
> amrecover: Can't read file header
> extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
> Continue [?/Y/n]?
> 
> 
> 



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