Frank Smith wrote:

--On Friday, December 12, 2003 12:38:26 -0500 jessica blackburn <jblackburn AT 
hirzel DOT com> wrote:

Here is my amanda.conf file:

...

tpchanger "chg-multi"   # the tape-changer glue script
tapedev "file:/backup/" # the no-rewind tape device to be used

I've never used the file driver in production, only played with it
a little, but I think  this needs to be a file, not a directory. Perhaps
someone else can clarify this. More comments way below.

From "man amanda", section OUTPUT DRIVERS, item "file":

  This driver emulates a tape device with a set of files in  a
  directory.   The  drive-info  field  must  be the name of an
  existing directory.  The driver will test for a subdirectory
  of that  named  data and return offline until it is present.

In English this means: create a directory /backup. Insert a tape
by creating a subdirectory /backup/data, or make a symlink "data"
to an existing directory, e.g. /backup/tape01:  ln -s tape01 data

But when using a changer, the tapedev specified here is not
important.  More important is the contents of the chg-multi.conf
file you specified below.

changerfile "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/chg-multi.conf"
changerdev "/dev/null"

...

tapetype HARD-DISK              # what kind of tape it is
define tapetype HARD-DISK{
       comment "20GB Hard disk"
       length 20000 mbytes
}

...

holdingdisk hd1 {
   comment "main holding disk"
   directory "/var/tmp"        # where the holding disk is

use 290 Mb chunks }

Not really a problem, but I would avoid using a directory
as holdingdisk where other program dump their garbage in.
Amanda will complain about "garbage" if it encounters files
in the holdingdisk dir that amanda did not create.

Instead use a dedicated directory for the amanda config,
something like "/var/amandahold/DailySet1", asuming you
your /var disk is where the spare space is.



...

define tapetype MIMSY-MEGATAPE {
   comment "Megatape (Exabyte based) drive through Emulex on Vax 8600"
   length 2200 mbytes
   filemark 2130 kbytes
   speed 170 kbytes            # limited by the Emulex bus interface,
ugh
}


--exclude-from="filename"


define dumptype global {
   comment "Global definitions"

}

What's the "--exclude-from..." doing between the dumptypes?
May be copy-paste error?

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 19:29, Frank Smith wrote:

--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.

Now, if you have REAL tapes, you should now change the tapedrive
from the default with the "settape" command something like:
settape /dev/nrst0
If it really is a backup made with the file driver, you should
now insert the tape in file:/backup by creating a symlink
to the DailySet109 directory, something like:
  cd /backup
  rm data
  ln -s /backup/DailySet109 data

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

It seems amanda finds nothing in the file:/backup device...

Continue [?/Y/n]? n
amrecover> exit
200 Good bye.

--
Paul @ Home