--On Thursday, December 11, 2003 15:21:19 -0500 jessica blackburn <jblackburn 
AT hirzel DOT com> wrote:

> I am very new to this amanda system and am trying to run amrecover. 
> here is what I start with:
> 
> [root@hccweb RECOVER]# /usr/sbin/amrecover -C DailySet1 -s hccweb
> AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3. Contacting server on hccweb ...
> 220 hccweb AMANDA index server (2.4.3) ready.
> 200 Access OK
> Setting restore date to today (2003-12-11)
> 200 Working date set to 2003-12-11.
> 200 Config set to DailySet1.
> 200 Dump host set to hccweb.
> Trying disk / ...
> Trying disk rootfs ...
> Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD '/var/tmp/RECOVER'
> amrecover> sethost hccweb
> 200 Dump host set to hccweb.
> amrecover> setdisk /etc
> Scanning /var/tmp...
>   RECOVER: skipping cruft directory, perhaps you should delete it.
> 200 Disk set to /etc.
> amrecover> add syslog.conf
> Added /syslog.conf
> amrecover> extract
>  
> Extracting files using tape drive file:/backup/ on host localhost.
> The following tapes are needed: DailySet109
>  
> Restoring files into directory /var/tmp/RECOVER
> Continue [?/Y/n]? Y
>  
> Extracting files using tape drive file:/backup/ on host localhost.
> Load tape DailySet109 now
> Continue [?/Y/n/t]? Y
> EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on localhost.
> amrecover: short block 0 bytes
> UNKNOWN file
> amrecover: Can't read file header
> extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
> Continue [?/Y/n]? n
> amrecover> exit
> 200 Good bye.
> 
> When I check the amidxtaped debug file this is what I get:
> 
> [root@hccweb amanda]# cat amidxtaped.20031211145718.debug
> amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 3715 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Thu Dec 11
> 14:57:18 2003
> amidxtaped: version 2.4.3
> amidxtaped: time 0.000: > SECURITY USER root
> amidxtaped: time 0.000: bsd security: remote host hccweb user root local
> user amanda
> amidxtaped: time 0.000: amandahosts security check passed
> amidxtaped: time 0.000: > 6
> amidxtaped: time 0.000: amrestore_nargs=6
> amidxtaped: time 0.000: > -h
> amidxtaped: time 0.000: > -p
> amidxtaped: time 0.000: > file:/file1
> amidxtaped: time 0.000: > ^hccweb$
> amidxtaped: time 0.000: > ^/etc$
> amidxtaped: time 0.000: > 20031210
> amidxtaped: time 0.000: Ready to execv amrestore with:
> path = /usr/sbin/amrestore
> argv[0] = "amrestore"
> argv[1] = "-h"
> argv[2] = "-p"
> argv[3] = "file:/file1"
> argv[4] = "^hccweb$"
> argv[5] = "^/etc$"
> argv[6] = "20031210"
> amrestore: could not stat file:/file1
> amidxtaped: time 0.004: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2
> amidxtaped: could not stat file:/file1
> amidxtaped: time 0.004: could not stat file:/file1
> amidxtaped: time 0.004: pid 3715 finish time Thu Dec 11 14:57:18 2003
> 
> 
> any suggestions??

It looks to me like Amanda thinks you are using files instead of
tapes (or the restore needs to be done from the holdingdisk), and
that it needs /file1 which doesn't seem to exist.
   What does your amanda.conf look like?

Frank



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