Some of your comments confuse me.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:39:18PM +1200, Cameron Beattie wrote:
> I believe this problem is resolved thanks to some help from the list. See
> my inline comments for the resolution.
>
...
> The warning is no longer present in the log and the index seems to be
> created:
> ls -laF /var/lib/amanda/normal/index/hostname/_etc
> drwxr-sr-x 4 amanda disk 4096 Sep 16 17:29 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 4 amanda disk 4096 Sep 13 16:47 ../
> -rw------- 1 amanda disk 7595 Sep 16 17:29 20050916_0.gz
The name of that directory, "_etc" says it was created
to index a DLE named "/etc". All slashes, "/", are
converted to underscores, "_".
An index directory for a DLE of the root file system named
"/" would show up as "...ex/hostname/_".
>
> gunzip -d 20050916_0.gz
> vi 20050916_0
> This shows all files and directories listed as expected
You decompressed the file before looking at it. (btw the
-d was ignored as redundant) Did you recompress it before
trying amrecover? amrecover expects the compressed file.
>
> However amrecover reports
> cd /etc
> amrecover -C normal
> "No index records for disk for specified date"
This is why I ask the above question. A safer way to
view, not edit, a gzip'ped file is gzmore.
BTW, a paranoid like myself would never do a recovery in
the original location. There is too much danger of trashing
something unintended. I make, or use, an empty directory
and cd there. Then I set the diskname on either the command
line or after entering amrecover.
> >
> >>hostname / {
> >> root-tar
> >> include "./etc"
> >>}
An index directory for this would be called "_".
> >>
> I had changed /etc/amanda/normal/disklist to:
> hostname /etc root-tar
The amdump then created the above index dir "_etc".
> When I changed it back to:
> hostname / {
> root-tar
> include "./etc"
> }
>
> I could successfully use amrecover.
> I don't understand why but it works now.
>
Give what you've shown I don't either.
Strictly a guess, you have an index dir and
indicies that you overlooked because of their
simple name "_".
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