Comment 1 for bug 1077105

This is a perl issue, and a fix has been available since June of 2011. See http://old.nabble.com/amrecover---can%27t-talk-to-tape-server%3A-service-amidxtaped%3A-td31861008.html where patches for this problem are posted. This problem is related to Bug #1056641 which deals with the perl issue, but doesn't provide a fix.

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on two different servers and have applied the patches from the above URL and can attest to the fact that they do indeed fix the problem. I'm attaching the relevant patches since I haven't seen them posted on Ubuntu Launchpad in relation to this problem. Since these were drawn from a copy and paste from the Nabble website, you'll have to dissect this diff and apply each patch with -l.

I'm running an LTS version of Ubuntu with the understanding that problems of this sort will be addressed as fixes become available for the next 4+ years. Since backup and restore are mission critical administrative tasks for servers used in business environments, I would hope that this matter would be given some priority attention. My guess is that this may not have been a problem in the original release of 12.04 and that an upgrade to perl during the past year may have caused this bug to surface. The problem is especially nasty since there's no problem making backups with amanda as it's distributed, but it fails when the backups are needed in a hurry to restore lost data.