On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 09:44:12PM -0600, Trevor Morrison wrote: > 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.
tar try to create the 'trevor' directory in /home/trevor but you already have a trevor file there. You should cd to the mount point before you use amrecover. Jean-Louis PS. That's always a bad idea to have the same name for two different things. -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834
