I just ran into the exact same problem using below mentioned versions for server and client.
I am using a custom compression script, and the client log for the failed recovery contains the following lines: Mon Jan 19 11:05:59 2015: thd-0x199da00: amrecover: image is compressed /etc/amanda/xz-1 Mon Jan 19 11:05:59 2015: thd-0x199da00: amrecover: Spawning "/etc/amanda/xz-1 /etc/amanda/xz-1 -d" in pipeline This looks as if the name of the custom compression script is inserted twice into the command. I would have expected 'Spawning "/etc/amanda/xz-1 -d" in pipeline' instead. On server: Package: amanda-client Version: 1:2.6.1p2-3 -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.10 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages amanda-client depends on: ii amanda-common 1:2.6.1p2-3 Advanced Maryland Automatic Networ ii libc6 2.11.3-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries amanda-client recommends no packages. Versions of packages amanda-client suggests: pn dump <none> (no description available) pn gnuplot <none> (no description available) pn smbclient <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information On client: Package: amanda-client Version: 1:3.3.1-4 -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages amanda-client depends on: ii amanda-common 1:3.3.1-4 ii libc6 2.19-13 ii libcurl3 7.26.0-1+wheezy12 ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5 ii libreadline6 6.2+dfsg-0.1 ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1e-2+deb7u14 amanda-client recommends no packages. Versions of packages amanda-client suggests: pn dump <none> pn gnuplot <none> pn smbclient <none> -- no debconf information Regards, Markus
