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List:       amanda-users
Subject:    RE: "Rewind" a disk backup "tape"
From:       "Byarlay, Wayne A." <wab () purdue ! edu>
Date:       2004-05-26 18:53:44
Message-ID: 53944D864FA5C945923FD522F8FF390A018FDF2B () EXCH02 ! purdue ! lcl
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heh, I found a file called "info", which said:
position 30

I changed it to say "position 1" and it worked! Hopefully this wouldn't
mess it all up... 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:paul.bijnens@xplanation.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 1:24 PM
To: Byarlay, Wayne A.
Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org
Subject: Re: "Rewind" a disk backup "tape"

Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
> 
> I'm using AMANDA 2.4.3, and backing up to disk by faking a chg-multi 
> device. Everything's set up, it's backing up correctly, but I am now 
> trying to restore. I tried to restore a filesystem using amrestore 
> that does not exist... and now, whenever I try to do one that DOES 
> exist, Amanda tells me:
> 
> amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset
> amrestore:   0: reached end of information
> 
> Yikes! How do I "Rewind" this disk directory that AMANDA thinks is a 
> non-rewinding tape device?

Try:

   ammt -f file:/the/path/to/fake/tape rewind

You can also add these two directives to amanda.conf:

amrecover_do_fsf yes    # this implies a rewind
amrecover_check_label yes

(I'm not sure if this command already existed in 2.4.3; there was at
least a little bug that implied that you need both, or it wouldn't
work.)

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