amrecover is not using the default tape drive

[marozsas]

Hi !

Looks like amrecover is not using the default tape drive as configured in amanda.conf. I need to explicit indicate the correct tape drive on command line.

using the default tape drive. (please, note the message "Extracting files using tape drive changer" - I don't have a tape drive changer ; and the following "Not an amanda tape")

root@bigslam:/tmp>amrecover -C diario 
AMRECOVER Version 2.6.0p2. Contacting server on localhost ...
220 bigslam AMANDA index server (2.6.0p2) ready.
Setting restore date to today (2008-11-27)
200 Working date set to 2008-11-27.
200 Config set to diario.
200 Dump host set to bigslam.
Use the setdisk command to choose dump disk to recover
amrecover> setdisk profiles_h-m
200 Disk set to profiles_h-m.
amrecover> cd melissa
/melissa
amrecover> add NTUSER.DAT
Added file /melissa/NTUSER.DAT
amrecover> extract

Extracting files using tape drive changer on host localhost.
The following tapes are needed: diario-21

Restoring files into directory /tmp
WARNING: Existing file /tmp/melissa/NTUSER.DAT will be overwritten
Continue [?/Y/n]? Y

Extracting files using tape drive changer on host localhost.
Load tape diario-21 now
Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? Y
Load tape diario-21 now
Continue [?/Y/n/d]? Y
Not an amanda tape
Load tape diario-21 now
Continue [?/Y/n/d]? Y
Not an amanda tape
Load tape diario-21 now
Continue [?/Y/n/d]? n
amrecover: short block 0 bytes
UNKNOWN file
amrecover: Can't read file header
Extractor child exited with status 1
amrecover> quit
200 Good bye.
root@bigslam:/tmp>

However, explicit use of the right device on command line is fine:

root@bigslam:~>amgetconf diario  tapedev
tape:/dev/nst0
root@bigslam:~>root@bigslam:/tmp>amrecover -C diario -d /dev/nst0
AMRECOVER Version 2.6.0p2. Contacting server on localhost ...
220 bigslam AMANDA index server (2.6.0p2) ready.
Setting restore date to today (2008-11-27)
200 Working date set to 2008-11-27.
200 Config set to diario.
200 Dump host set to bigslam.
Use the setdisk command to choose dump disk to recover
amrecover> setdisk profiles_h-m
200 Disk set to profiles_h-m.
amrecover> cd melissa
/melissa
amrecover> add NTUSER.DAT
Added file /melissa/NTUSER.DAT
amrecover> extract

Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host localhost.
The following tapes are needed: diario-21

Restoring files into directory /tmp
WARNING: Existing file /tmp/melissa/NTUSER.DAT will be overwritten
Continue [?/Y/n]? Y

Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host localhost.
Load tape diario-21 now
Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? Y
Load tape diario-21 now
Continue [?/Y/n/d]? Y
./melissa/NTUSER.DAT

Also, I had to confirm twice the message asking to load the tape (see above). I am sure the tape is on the tape drive. Just before to call amrecover, I ran amcheck and the tape diario-21 was loaded and recognized.

[pyeatman]

Hmmm, that is strange. If everything is working fine except for amrecover, possibly there is something unexpected in /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf or /etc/amanda/<config>/amanda-client.conf. If everything looks good there, you can at least set the record straight with the same file by expliciting stating

conf "diario # your config name
index_server "localhost" # your amindexd server
tape_server "localhost" # your amidxtaped server
tapedev "tape:/dev/nst0" # your tape device

Paul

[Floyd-ATC]

Just upgraded from 2.5.0p2-4 where "amrecover -d default" used to work as described in the amrecover manpage:

To use the default tape device selected by the tape server, the word default must be specified.

After I upgraded to 2.6.1p1 this no longer works:

Extracting files using tape drive default on host atlas.