Which release of amrecover are you using?

Jean-Louis

Gene Heskett wrote:

Greetings;

I have not restarted the nightly amanda run yet, still fine tuning this new install.

amrecover finally decided to work for about 95% of the time, but I find its an exellent hard link finder, cuz tar can't deal with those and does an error exit:

./sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts

tar: ./sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts: Cannot hard link to `./hosts': No such file or directory

./sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0
./sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/network
./sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/resolv.conf

tar: ./sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/resolv.conf: Cannot hard link to `./resolv.conf': No such file or directory

tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Extractor child exited with status 2
Extracting files using tape drive chg-disk on host coyote.
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this doesn't surprise me as I was extracting to /tmp, not /etc. But this next thing bothers me. Can it not get that -o info the /$config/amanda.conf?

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Load tape Dailys-13 now
Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]?
warning: restore program for APPLICATION not available.
amrecover couldn't exec: No such file or directory
 problem executing restore
Extractor child exited with status 1
Extracting files using tape drive chg-disk on host coyote.
Load tape Dailys-16 now
Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]?
warning: restore program for APPLICATION not available.
amrecover couldn't exec: No such file or directory
 problem executing restore
Extractor child exited with status 1
amrecover> exit
200 Good bye.

I would assume I would set the '-o amgtar' option on the cli, in which case the first extraction above would probably have failed, while the last 2 tapes would have been read ok instead of the error.

Comments Dustin? Have I uncovered a potential gotcha? These tapes straddle the time frame where I converted to using amgtar.