Thanks for your reply Marc, but alas, still no-go :-( The
amidxtaped.xxxxxxx.debug file shows the following info:

  ...
  amrestore: could not stat chg-disk: No such file or directory
  amidxtaped: time 0.063: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2
  amidxtaped: could not stat chg-disk: No such file or directory
  amidxtaped: time 0.064: could not stat chg-disk: No such file or
              directory
  ...

So it seems that the chg-disk script can't be found, which sits in
/usr/lib/amanda along with the other scripts.. Maybe something went
wrong with my way of installing and patching amanda. I'll fetch the
latest stable version from amanda.org, and try compiling it myself. Back
to the drawing board it is....

Regards,
-Rodi.


On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 16:41, Marc Langlois wrote:
> Hi Rodi,
> 
> The "amrecover: Can't read file header" message happened to me when the
> chg-disk script wasn't being called, and amrecover was trying to read
> from an empty tape slot directory i.e. the "data" sym-link was wrong.
> 
> My amanda.conf has these entries:
> 
> tpchanger "chg-disk" 
> tapedev "file:/s4/amanda_tapes" 
> rawtapedev "file:/s4/amanda_tapes" 
> changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/clst01/changer"
> changerdev "/dev/null"
> amrecover_changer "chg-disk"
>  
> In amrecover, I do:
> 
> amrecover> settape chg-disk
> amrecover> extract
> ...
> 
> and it works fine. Doing an "ls -l" on the tape slot directory
> (/s4/amanda_tapes for me) shows that the "data" sym-link is changed to
> point to the correct tape slot before each extract begins.
> 
> The value of "amrecover_changer" seems to be arbitrary - as long as the
> same string is used in amrecover, then it will use the value of
> "tpchanger" (AFAIK).
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Marc Langlois.
>   
> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 06:34, R.M. Evers wrote:
> > hi amanda-users,
> > 
> > sorry to bring this up again, but i'm also having problems with using
> > amrecover with the file: driver.. i have read the recent thread, but i
> > cannot get it to work properly.
> snip...
> > 
> > then, i tried to recover some directory using amrecover. at the final
> > 'extract'-point, i receive the error:
> > 
> >     --
> >     Extracting files using tape drive daily01 on host bu2.
> >     Load tape daily02 now
> >     Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? 
> >     EOF, check amidxtaped.<timestamp>.debug file on bu2.
> >     amrecover: short block 0 bytes
> >     UNKNOWN file
> >     amrecover: Can't read file header
> >     extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
> >     --
> > 
> > the recover works fine when i issue an "amtape DailySet1 label daily02"
> > on the backup server, but hey, i'm lazy..
> > 
> > i've tried different values for the amrecover_changer parameter
> > mentioned in the thread last month, but to no avail.. right now, here's
> > my config:
> > 
> >     --
> >     tpchanger "chg-disk"
> >     changerfile "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer"
> >     tapedev "file:/var/backups/amanda-tapes/DailySet1"
> >     amrecover_changer "file:/var/backups/amanda-tapes/DailySet1"
> >     --
> > 
> > i read the docs, googled like there's no tomorrow, but i can't seem to
> > get this right. what am i missing here?
> > 
> > thanks & regards,
> > -rodi.