On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Christopher <chris...@pricegrabber.com> wrote: > I'm running amanda 2.6.1p1 on a rhel 5.4 server. I am trying to restore > some files from a ~2 year old archive backup. Since it is an archive > backup I have the write protect tab closed on the physical tape. When I > try to run amrestore I get: > > /usr/sbin/amrestore -p -h /dev/nst0 ... > amrestore: Error reading volume label: Can't open tape device /dev/nst0: > Read-only file system. > > Why does amrestore want to write to the tape?
>From my answer to Ian 45 minutes ago: This has been fixed in trunk. Here's the patch: http://github.com/djmitche/amanda/commit/c3548dc511152bfacf1b53abb7e452fc7161e2f8 Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
