On Monday 03 November 2003 09:37, Jim Summers wrote: >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). > Linux normally uses two different devices to address a changer, one, the drive itself, is usually /dev/nst0, then the changer robot is treated as a generic scsi device, in your case /dev/sg1 because you've already got something on sg0. But check your /var/log/dmesg file for the device assigned to the drive itself.
Norma;lly you won't need the changer to recover if you can manually position the right tapes into the drive. >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. looks good >Load tape daily06 now do it manually >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 Humm, can amverify read this tape? >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 what user are you? >amidxtaped: time 0.010: pid 31743 finish time Mon Nov 3 08:10:09 > 2003 =========== -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.