I am trying to restore a file on a machine other than the amanda server as
one part of our website was hacked on the weekend.

Here are the server details:
        Server
                NetBSD/i386 v2.0.2
                Amanda 2.4.4p4
                HP Surestore DAT24x6 (amanda tapes 1-5, cleaning tape 6)

        Client in question
                NetBSD/i386 v2.0.2
                Amanda 2.4.4p4


Here is a snap of the session of running "amrecover" on the amanda client
machine. I am using the tape changer so I used settape "chg-scsi" in the
amrecover session. The correct tape is in changer and actually loaded in the
drive itself according to "amtape ncti current". Any idea why it gives up on
the tape so quickly ? If I type "mt rewind; mt fsf 17" the drive appears to
forward to that file. I have not tried to access data past that point.

Thanks

Scott...

ncti106# amrecover -C ncti -t ncti103 -s ncti103

AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p4. Contacting server on ncti103 ...
220 ncti103 AMANDA index server (2.4.4p4) ready.
200 Access OK
Setting restore date to today (2005-08-29)
200 Working date set to 2005-08-29.
Scanning /scratch3/amanda...
200 Config set to ncti.
200 Dump host set to ncti106.
Trying disk /var ...
Trying disk wd0f ...
$CWD '/var/tmp' is on disk 'wd0f' mounted at '/var'.
200 Disk set to wd0f.
set /var/tmp
WARNING: not on root of selected filesystem, check man-page!

amrecover> setdisk sd0a
200 Disk set to sd0a.

amrecover> settape chg-scsi
Using tape "chg-scsi" from server ncti103.

amrecover> setdate 2005-08-22
200 Working date set to 2005-08-22.

amrecover> sethost ncti106
200 Dump host set to ncti106.

amrecover> setdisk sd0a
200 Disk set to sd0a.

amrecover> setdate 2005-08-25
200 Working date set to 2005-08-25.

amrecover> settape chg-scsi
Using tape "chg-scsi" from server ncti103.

amrecover> lcd /var/tmp

amrecover> cd www
amrecover> cd netcontech
amrecover> cd custcarecenter
amrecover> cd include
/www/netcontech/customercarecenter/include

amrecover> add header.htm
Added /www/netcontech/customercarecenter/include/header.htm

amrecover> extract
Extracting files using tape drive chg-scsi on host ncti103.
The following tapes are needed: ncti13

Restoring files into directory /var/tmp
Continue [?/Y/n]? Y
Extracting files using tape drive chg-scsi on host ncti103.
Load tape ncti13 now
Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? Y

EOF, check amidxtaped.<timestamp>.debug file on ncti103.
amrecover: short block 0 bytes
UNKNOWN file
amrecover: Can't read file header
extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
Continue [?/Y/n/r]? amrecover>


Here is the log file from the server.

amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 5055 ruid 1000 euid 1000: start at Mon Aug 29
14:15:55 2005
amidxtaped: version 2.4.4p4
amidxtaped: time 0.182: > SECURITY USER root
amidxtaped: time 0.183: bsd security: remote host ncti106.ncti.com user root
local user backup
amidxtaped: time 0.183: amandahosts security check passed
amidxtaped: time 0.183: > CONFIG=ncti
amidxtaped: time 0.183: > LABEL=ncti13
amidxtaped: time 0.183: > FSF=17
amidxtaped: time 0.183: > HEADER
amidxtaped: time 0.183: > DEVICE=chg-scsi
amidxtaped: time 0.183: > HOST=^ncti106$
amidxtaped: time 0.183: > DISK=^sd0a$
amidxtaped: time 0.183: > DATESTAMP=20050822
amidxtaped: time 0.183: > END
changer: got exit: 0 str: 2 5 1 0
changer_query: changer return was 5 1 0
changer_query: searchable = 0
changer_find: looking for ncti13 changer is searchable = 0
changer: got exit: 0 str: 2 /dev/nrst0
amidxtaped: time 12.069: slot 2: date 20050822 label ncti13 (exact label
match)
amidxtaped: time 12.069: label "ncti13" found
amidxtaped: time 12.069: amrestore_nargs=0
amidxtaped: time 12.069: Ready to execv amrestore with:
path = /usr/pkg/sbin/amrestore
argv[0] = "amrestore"
argv[1] = "-p"
argv[2] = "-h"
argv[3] = "/dev/nrst0"
argv[4] = "^ncti106$"
argv[5] = "^sd0a$"
argv[6] = "20050822"
amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset
amrestore:   0: reached end of information
amidxtaped: time 12.093: amrestore terminated normally with status: 1
amidxtaped: time 12.094: rewinding tape ...
amidxtaped: time 12.112: done
amidxtaped: time 12.112: pid 5055 finish time Mon Aug 29 14:16:08 2005



Scott R. Burns
NETCON Technologies Inc.
Suite 135 - 4474 Blakie Road
London, Ontario, Canada
N6L 1G7
Voice: +1.519.652.0401
Fax: +1.519.652.9275