On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:54:40PM -0800, bao wrote: > I just got a similar problem to what Odd Rune Dahle described, with a > slightly different message. > > In the amidxtaped.<timestamp>.debug file, almost everything went fine until: > > amrestore: error reading file header: Is a directory > amidxtaped: time 0.004: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2 > amidxtaped: time 0.004: rewinding tape ... > amidxtaped: time 30.102: tape_rewind tape: /home/amanda/testSet1: > Inappropriate ioctl for device > amidxtaped: time 30.102: pid 25439 finish blah blah blah > > 1. The "Inappropriate..." must be because I use tapeless back up on a > second hard drive.
What's your tapedev in amanda.conf? You should use it. Maybe it's 'file:/home/amanda/testSet1'. Jean-Louis > > 2. Is amrestore capable of restoring a whole directory tree??? > And what goes wrong here? > > Thanks, > > > Odd Rune Dahle wrote: > >Joshua Baker-LePain: > > > >>>>>EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on ns1. > >>>> > >>>>And did you do this? What's in that file? > >>> > >>>I'm sorry. I forgot to mention that this file doesn't exist. > >> > >>First off, what user you running that command as? If it's not root or > >>amanda, then it's not going to pick up /tmp/amanda (where the debug files > >>live), b/c /tmp/amanda has 700 permissions. > > > > > >It was as root. But now that you mention /tmp/amanda, I checked there. > >amrestore refer to amidxtaped.debug, but the file is named > >amidxtaped.<timestamp>.debug.. no wonder the locate command didn't > >find it :-) > > > >Things made a bit more sense once I found the debug-file: > > > >amrestore: could not open /dev/tape: Permission denied > >amidxtaped: time 0.003: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2 > >amidxtaped: time 0.003: rewinding tape ... > >amidxtaped: time 0.003: tape_rewind: tape open: /dev/tape: Permission > >denied > >amidxtaped: time 0.003: pid 10103 finish time Fri Feb 28 07:19:30 2003 > > > >My xinetd-setup specified the wrong group for amidxtaped (bin), when I > >use 'disk' as owner of the tape-device. Unfortunately there are > >nobody on-site until monday morning, but we'll run a new test then. > > > >Thanks for the help :-) > > > -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834