Re: Amrecover hangs after restore

On Thursday 17 December 2020 06:03:44 Gene Heskett wrote:

Another detail that might be useful, I kept many of the amanda-4.0 
releases when a fellow named Mitchel was working on it in 2012, quitting 
when the last one didn't work. so I am going to make and install about 
the next to the last one, working toward the older one until I find one 
that works. When I do find one that works, I'll send the original tar.gz 
to Stefan for inclusion in his github portal. Then we can all play.
 
> >
> > So if someone wants to go the github way of improving it, that is
> > possible now.
>
> But that is not the whole thing. There is also backup.sh which is
> linked to flush.sh, detecting which it is run as, and
> flush-indices-configs which is a link to bak-indices-configs, also
> detecting which it is run as.  But this error, supposedly caused by an
> amstatus data format change, effects it all.  And I am about down to
> zero valid backups as this has existed for over 3 complete trips thru
> 60 vtapes now. I've changed both drives now thinking it was something
> going sour in the drives, but haven't found the problem.


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