On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:05:46PM +0200, Jens Rohde wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm stuck! - I've tried to get amrecover to work. There's no problem in
> selecting host, disk and files to recover, but when I try to do the actual
> recover I get the following error:
>
> amrecover> extract
>
> Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst1 on host devel.
> The following tapes are needed: EOS-011
> EOS-012
>
> Restoring files into directory /tmp
> Continue? [Y/n]: y
>
> Load tape EOS-011 now
> Continue? [Y/n]: y
> EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on devel.
> amrecover: short block 0 bytes
> UNKNOWN file
> amrecover: Can't read file header
> extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
> Continue? [Y/n]:
>
> The debug file contains:
>
> amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 3112 ruid 1028 euid 1028 start time Thu Oct 18
> 11:17:09 2001
> amidxtaped: version 2.4.2
> > SECURITY USER root
> bsd security: remote host afs1.eos user root local user amanda
> amandahosts security check passed
> > 6
> amrestore_nargs=6
> > -h
> > -p
> > /dev/nst1
> > svabonius.eos.dk
> > ^/etc$
> > 20011017
> Ready to execv amrestore with:
> path = /afs/eos.dk/sw/pack/amanda-2.4.2/sbin/amrestore
> argv[0] = "amrestore"
> argv[1] = "-h"
> argv[2] = "-p"
> argv[3] = "/dev/nst1"
> argv[4] = "svabonius.eos.dk"
> argv[5] = "^/etc$"
> argv[6] = "20011017"
> amrestore: could not open tape /dev/nst1: Permission denied
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Here's the error. Please look at "remote host afs1.eos user root local
user amanda".
Maybe you start amidxtaped as user amanda instead of root. Check
/etc/inetd.conf or /etc/xinetd*
> amidxtaped: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2
> Rewinding tape: no tape online
> amidxtaped: pid 3112 finish time Thu Oct 18 11:17:09 2001
>
> I've searched the mail-list archives but didn't find anything that applied
> to my problem (or at least I don't think so :) ).
>
> I have no problems with restoring files using mt and dd on the same
> tape/tape drive, so it is functioning.
>
> The server is running RedHat Linux 7.0, and I've tried both amanda 2.4.2
> and 2.4.2p2. Same result.
>
> So what do I do wrong here?
>
> --
> Jens Rohde, System Administrator
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Eastfork Object Space (EOS), Margrethepladsen 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
> Tel: +45 8732 8787 / Fax: +45 8732 8788
>
>
