Pascal,

I recall a similar error when the chg-disk changer wasn't setting the
"data" sym-link to the correct "tape" slot. Try using the command:

settape chg-disk

before doing the extract. It also worked if I manually ran the command:

amtape <config> slot <N>

in another window before doing the extract.

I eventually got the config right in amanda.conf, and it works properly
now. Here are my relevant amanda.conf entries:

runtapes 1 
tpchanger "chg-disk" 
tapedev "file:/d1/amanda_tapes" 
rawtapedev "file:/d1/amanda_tapes"
changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/daily/changer"
changerdev "/dev/null"
amrecover_changer "changer"

Marc Langlois.

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 08:12, Pascal Robert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we are doing backups on hard drives, this part works fine, but when I 
> try to do a recover, I get this error "EOF, check amidxtaped.debug 
> file".  This is a except from my session:
> 
> [root@staging03 /]# /usr/sbin/amrecover -s xxxx.xx.cesart.com -t 
> xxxx.xx.cesart.com -C Hosting
> AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on xxxx.xxx.cesart.com ...
> 220 backup AMANDA index server (2.4.4p2) ready.
> 200 Access OK
> Setting restore date to today (2004-02-25)
> 200 Working date set to 2004-02-25.
> Scanning /backups/amandadumps/holding...
> 200 Config set to Hosting.
> 200 Dump host set to xxxxxx.cesart.com.
> $CWD '/' is on disk '/' mounted at '/'.
> 200 Disk set to /.
> /
> amrecover> cd home/probert
> /home/probert
> amrecover> add MMI-030922.host-b.gz
> Added /home/probert/MMI-030922.host-b.gz
> amrecover> list
> TAPE Hosting08 LEVEL 2 DATE 2004-02-25
>          /home/probert/MMI-030922.host-b.gz
> amrecover> settape xxxx.xx.cesart.com:file:/backups/amandadumps/tape08
> Using tape file:/backups/amandadumps/tape08 from server 
> backup.01.cesart.com.
> amrecover> extract
> 
> Extracting files using tape drive file:/backups/amandadumps/tape08 on 
> host backup.01.cesart.com.
> The following tapes are needed: Hosting08
> 
> Restoring files into directory /
> Continue? [Y/n]: y
> 
> Load tape Hosting08 now
> Continue? [Y/n]: y
> EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on xxxx.xx.cesart.com.
> 
> And in the debug file:
> 
> amidxtaped: time 0.000: Ready to execv amrestore with:
> path = /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amrestore
> argv[0] = "amrestore"
> argv[1] = "-h"
> argv[2] = "-p"
> argv[3] = "file:/backups/amandadumps/tape08"
> argv[4] = "xxxxx.cesart.com"
> argv[5] = "^/$"
> argv[6] = "20040225"
> amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset
> amrestore:   0: reached end of information
> amidxtaped: time 0.002: amrestore terminated normally with status: 1
> amidxtaped: time 0.002: rewinding tape ...
> amidxtaped: time 0.002: done
> amidxtaped: time 0.002: pid 2491 finish time Wed Feb 25 09:31:20 2004