The "device or resource busy" message comes from your operating system. Normally this error means that two programs tried to access the tape device simultaneously.
I suspect one of the following: 1) A hardware problem or kernel bug. Check your kernel debug logs. 2) A cron job that accesses the tape. Check your cron log. --Ian On Friday 22 September 2006 19:21, David Trusty wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to restore a file which is on a backup > which used tape spanning. I am running version 2.5.1. > > The backup says it completed successfully, but I get > the errors below from amrecover and imidxtaped. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks!! > > David > > amrecover output > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Looking for tape 104... > tar: Read 8192 bytes from - > tar: Unexpected EOF in archive > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > Extractor child exited with status 2 > > > debug log for amidxtaped > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > midxtaped: 46: restoring split dumpfile: date 20060920 host helix disk > /mnt/dataa/invention part 46/UNKNOWN lev 0 comp N program /bin/tar > amidxtaped: 47: restoring split dumpfile: date 20060920 host helix disk > /mnt/dataa/invention part 47/UNKNOWN lev 0 comp N program /bin/tar > amidxtaped: 48: restoring split dumpfile: date 20060920 host helix disk > /mnt/dataa/invention part 48/UNKNOWN lev 0 comp N program /bin/tar > amidxtaped: 49: restoring split dumpfile: date 20060920 host helix disk > /mnt/dataa/invention part 49/UNKNOWN lev 0 comp N program /bin/tar > amidxtaped: 50: restoring split dumpfile: date 20060920 host helix disk > /mnt/dataa/invention part 50/UNKNOWN lev 0 comp N program /bin/tar > amidxtaped: 51: restoring split dumpfile: date 20060920 host helix disk > /mnt/dataa/invention part 51/UNKNOWN lev 0 comp N program /bin/tar > amidxtaped: restore read error: Device or resource busy > amidxtaped: time 2988.892: restore read error: Device or resource busy > amidxtaped: time 2988.892: pid 18574 finish time Fri Sep 22 11:29:43 2006 -- Zmanda: Open Source Data Protection and Archiving. http://www.zmanda.com