Ranveer Attalia wrote:
It seems some overly active system administrator removed the
log.DATESTAMP.x files. Do not do that. They are needed >by amanda to
find information about tape contents. They are cleaned automatically by
amanda, when needed, too.
These all live in /tmp/amanda yes? If so then everytime the machine
reboots this means that the amanda log files get automatically cleared.
No, the files /tmp/amanda are debug files.
The log.DATESTAMP.X files live in the ~amanda/Name-Of-Config/ directory,
next to the amdump.X files and others, like tapelist etc.
EOF, check amidxtaped.<timestamp>.debug file on tsssun1.
ok, what does that file say?
NOt much more info:
But enough for me :-)
$ cat amidxtaped.20040823170009.debug
amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 23046 ruid 6558 euid 6558: start at Mon Aug 23
17:00:09 2004
amidxtaped: version 2.4.4p1
amidxtaped: time 0.000: > SECURITY USER root
amidxtaped: time 0.002: bsd security: remote host pethp1.tertio.com user
root local user amanda
amidxtaped: time 0.003: amandahosts security check passed
amidxtaped: time 0.003: > CONFIG=Weekly
amidxtaped: time 0.003: > LABEL=Fri3.1
So it is looking for a tape named "Fri3.1" (remember that's what
amrecover asked to load!)
amidxtaped: time 0.003: > FSF=132
And it would be file 132 on that tape.
amidxtaped: time 0.003: > HEADER
amidxtaped: time 0.003: > DEVICE=/dev/rmt/1ubn
amidxtaped: time 0.065: > HOST=^pesthp1$
amidxtaped: time 0.065: > DISK=^/opt$
amidxtaped: time 0.065: > DATESTAMP=20040820
amidxtaped: time 0.065: > END
amidxtaped: time 0.093: amrestore_nargs=0
amidxtaped: time 0.093: Ready to execv amrestore with:
path = /opt/amanda/sbin/amrestore
argv[0] = "amrestore"
argv[1] = "-p"
argv[2] = "-h"
argv[3] = "/dev/rmt/1ubn"
argv[4] = "^pesthp1$"
argv[5] = "^/opt$"
argv[6] = "20040820"
amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20040820 label Fri3.2
But the tape in /dev/rmt/1ubn it is reading is labelled "Fri3.2"
and not "Fri3.1"!
(btw. the "b" flag on Solaris tape devices is usually not what you
want, unless you know what you're doing! The "mt fsf" becomes a
different thing in certain cases.)
amrestore: 1: skipping pedlinux1._scratch.20040820.0
amrestore: 2: skipping telsun4._projects.20040820.0
amrestore: 3: skipping telhp3._home.20040820.0
amrestore: 4: skipping telhp6._opt.20040820.0
amrestore: 5: skipping pesthp1._scratch.20040820.0
amrestore: 6: skipping pedhp1._scratch.20040820.0
amrestore: 7: skipping telsun8._export_home.20040820.0
amrestore: 8: skipping pesthp1._opt_oracle_oradata.20040820.0
amrestore: 9: skipping telsun7._databases1.20040820.0
amrestore: 10: skipping telhp6._home.20040820.0
amrestore: 11: skipping pestsun1._oradata1.20040820.0
amrestore: 12: reached end of tape: date 20040820
And neither does that tape contain 132 files.
amidxtaped: time 1213.215: amrestore terminated normally with status: 1
amidxtaped: time 1213.216: rewinding tape ...
amidxtaped: time 1286.265: done
amidxtaped: time 1286.282: pid 23046 finish time Mon Aug 23 17:21:35
2004
$
If you are running a recent version, you can add these two directives
to amanda.conf:
amrecover_check_label yes
amrecover_do_fsf yes
Verify if "man amanda" does contain these directives.
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