Hi 

First thanks to everyone that helped me with my nightmare restore last
week. I've managed to get the system disk up and running now so things
are little calmer. Trying to understand the errors I recieved during the
restore and Gavin mentioned that we shouldnt be using "day of the week"
tape labels. Why is this? Are the results fatal if we do? (with the
system disk restore, I eventually managed to get all the data off) 


All of our Daily and Weekly tapes are labelled with the day of the week.
Is there any easy way that we can revert back to the Amanda way of
labelling the tapes? If it is possible and we can revert, would we still
beable to restore off the "day of the week" tapes that we have up until
now if we ever need to?

Thanks 

- Ranveer 

 


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]On Behalf Of Paul Bijnens
Sent: 24 August 2004 14:51
To: Ranveer Attalia
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: Anyone please reply! System Disk recovery - UNKNOWN file.
amrecover: Cant read file header


Ranveer Attalia wrote:

> I am trying to test restore before I run a system disk recover from 
> amanda server to my client machine.
> The restore file is any one from /opt onto the client telhp6 onto a 
> /scratch/restored directory but its giving me file header errors...
> I cannot understand why though because it looks as if it backed up 
> fine and its displaying the tape labels with no problem on the amanda
server:
> Please can someone help
>  
> Thanks
>  
> - Ranveer
>  
> $ amtape Weekly show
> amtape: scanning all 7 slots in tape-changer rack:
> slot 1: date 20040822 label Fri3.1
> slot 2: date 20040820 label Fri3.2
> amtape: could not load slot source: Element Address 8 is Empty

Labeling tapes with "day of the week", is not a good practice, just in
case you didn't read the earlier warnings about this issue.



  






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