Hiya

Thanks for that - once the index record was specified as a YES it
works fine on the next days backups for restoring.

Regards

Tariq


On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:28:58 -0500, Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 05:56:39PM +0000, TJ wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have Amanda set up and working with amrecover on
> > Solaris successfully. However I am having issues with
> > recovering data from a samba/windows 2000 backup.  The
> > backups seem to be working from the Windows 2000
> > server with a madmin DS1 disklist butch u2
> > bytes of data backed up. However when i use the
> > amrecover command I get the following message when i
> > try to setdisk in amrecover:
> >
> > 501 No index records for disk: //windowsserver/c$.
> > Invalid?
> 
> Have you turned indexing on in amanda.conf?
> By default it is off and you would not have indexes
> to use with amrecover.  amrestore will have to be
> used instead.
> 
> Use amadmin to determine the configuration and settings
> for your disklist entry.  For example, here is one of mine:
> 
>   # amadmin DS1 disklist butch u2
>   line 28:
>     host butch:
>         interface default
>     disk /u2:
>         program "GNUTAR"
>         exclude list "/usr/local/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar"
>         priority 0
>         dumpcycle 7
>         maxdumps 8
>         maxpromoteday 10000
>         strategy STANDARD
>         compress CLIENT FAST
>         comprate 0.50 0.50
>         auth BSD
>         kencrypt NO
>         holdingdisk YES
>         record YES
>         index YES               <== setting of interest
>         skip-incr NO
>         skip-full NO
> 
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