Hello Erik,
I haven't found any recover.par. May be I have an older version of the simfactory. 
So, I tried just to run with my par file. First i used this command
./simfactory/sim create-submit recover_test2 --parfile=par/myparfile.par --procs=8 --walltime=0:10:0
then 
./simfactory/sim submit recover_test2 --parfile=par/myparfile.par --procs=8 --walltime=0:10:0
and I got the following error message:
Simulation Factory:
[log] Submitting:
[log] Restart id "0000" is active
Aborting.

Thank you. Petr. 

Here is a LOG file: 
LOG FILE for simulation "recover_test2"
================================================================================

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2011-11-21 10:08:19 ettest04@qb4.loni.org:
Skeleton created
Job directory: "/scratch/ettest04/simulations/recover_test2"
Machine: "queenbee"
Simulation id: "simulation-recover_test2-queenbee-qb4.loni.org-ettest04-2011.11.21-10.08.19-8396"
Source dir: "/home/ettest04/Cactus"
Configuration: "sim"
Config id: "config-sim-qb4.loni.org-home-ettest04-Cactus"
Build id: "build-sim-qb4.loni.org-ettest04-2011.11.08-19.43.33-31159"
Executable: "/home/ettest04/Cactus/exe/cactus_sim"
Option list: "configs/sim/OptionList"
Script file: "/home/ettest04/Cactus/configs/sim/ScriptFile"
Parameter file: "par/rns_64_25km_1lev_tvd_vanleerMC2_hlle_MADM_1.432_HarmF_2_HarmN_1_g12.par"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2011-11-21 10:08:19 ettest04@qb4.loni.org:
Submitting:
Using restart id "0000"
Not recovering since there are no restart ids
Created restart directory
Activated restart directory
Created job script
Created parameter file
About to submit job
Executing: cd /scratch/ettest04/simulations/recover_test2/output-0000 && { qsub SIMFACTORY/ScriptFile ; }
Submitted job
Job id is "583945"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2011-11-21 10:47:32 ettest04@qb4.loni.org:
Submitting:
Restart id "0000" is active
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tha


On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Erik Schnetter <schnetter@cct.lsu.edu> wrote:
Petr

In most cases, a simple "submit" (with the same simulation name)
should suffice. --from-restart-id allows restarting from a particular
restart, in case you don't want to restart from the previous restart.

Simfactory has a parameter file simfactory/etc/parfiles/recover.par.
Could you try this? You would submit it on a single process, let it
run for a few minutes, and then submit it again:

./bin/sim submit recover --parfile=simfactory/etc/parfiles/recover.par
--walltime=0:10:0

and later

./bin/sim submit recover --parfile=simfactory/etc/parfiles/recover.par
--walltime=0:10:0
This should work.

-erik

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Petr Tsatsin <ptsatsin@fau.edu> wrote:
>  Hello,
>
> I'm trying to restart my simulation on queenbee using simfactory. I tried
> "./sim submit --from-restart-id ..." and I got
> "Simulation Factory:
>  [log] Submitting:
>  [log] Using restart id "0002"
>  [log] Requested recovering from restart id "0"
>  [log] Could not find checkpoint files in restart id "0000"
>  Aborting.''
> Inside my parameter file for this simulation I set up HDF5 check pointing in
> following way:
> "IO::out_dir      = $parfile
> IOHDF5::checkpoint = "yes"
> IO::checkpoint_every = 100000
> IO::checkpoint_file = $parfile
> IO::checkpoint_dir = $parfile
> IO::recover="auto"
> IO::recover_file = $parfile
> IO::recover_dir = $parfile"
> I checked that h5 check point files are actually inside the output-0000
> directory.
> Any suggestions how can I restart the my simulation from HDF5 checkpoint
> with a simfactory?
> Thank you.
> --
> Petr Tsatsin
> Graduate Student- Department of Physics
> Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
> Florida Atlantic University
> (561)-297-3386
> ptsatin@fau.edu, ptsatsin@gmail.com
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Petr Tsatsin
Graduate Student- Department of Physics
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Florida Atlantic University
(561)-297-3386
ptsatin@fau.edu, ptsatsin@gmail.com