On 9/7/07, Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk AT bio.umass DOT edu> wrote:
> Why get tangled up trying to second guess Amanda? Amanda knows what's on
> tape and what's on holding disk and how to put it together. In my
> experience, I can simply do
>
> $ amrecover daily
>
> and specify a host, etc. and it will recover it. I've purposely tested
> this on stuff that was left in the holding disk. It seems that the only
> time you should have to piece things together "manually" is if the
> amanda server itself is down and you have nothing set up for the
> situation and no other recourse but to start using dd, concatenating
> pieces, gunzipping them, untarring them, etc. And those steps are
> actually spelled out in the file header when it goes on tape.
>
> Am I mistaken or missing something here?

I've had bad luck with amrecover in the past; it seemed fairly
unreliable the last time I tried it (Amanda 2.4.4p3 on RHEL 4), and so
I've avoided it since.

I really ought to give it another try, though.  Thank you for the
encouragement to do so.

Josh Kelley