Hello List,
I am attempting to recover a file using amrecover. I am running
amrecover on the amanda server and want to recover the file to a temp
directory and then manually put it back in place. This is amanda
2.4.4p1 on a Redhat9 system. I have found references to EOF errors but
not anything with th permission denied stuff. My tape drive is actually
a changer (/dev/sg1). The host and disk are on a amanda client.
I start amrecover, no problem.
I issue a sethost <clientname> No errors or problems
I issue a setdisk <DLE> No errors or problems
Next I cd to the directory containing the file to recover and issue the add command. No problem.
Then I issue extract and it prompts for the tape needed and then a continue prompt and the following is displayed: =========== Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host backus. Load tape daily06 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? Y EOF, check amidxtaped.<timestamp>.debug file on backus. amrecover: short block 0 bytes UNKNOWN file amrecover: Can't read file header extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 ===========
The amidxtaped debug contains the following errors: =========== amrestore: could not open /dev/nst0: Permission denied amidxtaped: time 0.010: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2 amidxtaped: time 0.010: rewinding tape ... amidxtaped: time 0.010: tape_rewind: tape open: /dev/nst0: Permission denied amidxtaped: time 0.010: pid 31743 finish time Mon Nov 3 08:10:09 2003 ===========
Are the filesystem permissions OK for /dev/nst0? You should have read and write permissions on the device. Are you logged in as root?
Marc
