Compiling amanda-2.4.4p2 myself did the trick. I adapted Marc's config
for my site, et voila!

Thanks again.

Regards,
-Rodi


On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 09:56, R.M. Evers wrote:
> 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.