Amanda-Users

Re: Need help restoring: -p doesn't seem to work

2006-07-26 11:44:50
Subject: Re: Need help restoring: -p doesn't seem to work
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:37:36 -0400
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:24:19AM -0700, Sean Noonan wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > 
> > That looks like amrestore isn't finding the dump file on the tape and is
> > running off the end of tape.
> > 
> > I'm puzzled by the "missing file header block".   That implies that the
> > tape isn't positioned at the start of a tape file when you run amrestore.
> > What does "mt stat" say before you run amrestore?  Is the tape positioned
> > at the very start of the tape file you want (or at least somewhere before
> > there)?
> 
> "mt start" gives an error.  "start" doesn't seem to be a valid command for

I think that was supposed to be "status".


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