I guess it really was a permission problem. I added read permission to all on the tape device and I can extract files now.
Anyone know why this is necessary? Permissions on the devices were: crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 128 Aug 30 2001 /dev/nst0 and amanda ia member of the 'disk' group $ id amanda uid=250(amanda) gid=4(adm) groups=4(adm),6(disk) This seems to be OK for writing but not for reading. Is this an amanda feature? On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Stephen Carville wrote: - I recently moved from solaris to linux so I am testing amrestore - again. I keep getting the following error: - - EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on chena. - amrecover: short block 0 bytes - UNKNOWN file - amrecover: Can't read file header - extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 <snip> -- -- Stephen Carville UNIX and Network Administrator DPSI (formerly Ace USA Flood Services) 310-342-3602 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
