RE: amrestore program

[Ron Snyder]

Title: Message

I'm going to make a couple of guesses:

1) /home is a mount point (or at least a "disk" as far as amanda is concerned)

2) you're trying to restore into your own home directory

 

If this is correct, then your original tar file will have files like:

trevor/.bashrc

trevor/.profile

trevor/important-file.txt

trevor/trevor

 

That trevor/trevor file is causing you problems because when you are in ~trevor and trying to untar your file, tar is goint to try to create the files in the above list, including the preceding "trevor/". 

 

-ron

-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Morrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 4:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: amrestore program

 
Hi,

When I do my backups I use the GNU tar  for my root-tar dumptype.  While I was trying to restore a file tonight I would get the following error:

tar: ./trevor/trevor: Cannot open: Not a directory
tar: Error exit delayed form previous errors
extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 2

trevor is just regular file in my /home/trevor directory.  I first changed into that directory before starting amrecover.  What am I doing wrong?  TIA.
 
 

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Trevor Morrison
Hailix, LLC     
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