>On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:54:40PM -0800, bao wrote: >> I just got a similar problem to what Odd Rune Dahle described, with a >> slightly different message. >> >> In the amidxtaped.<timestamp>.debug file, almost everything went fine until: >> >> amrestore: error reading file header: Is a directory >> amidxtaped: time 0.004: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2 >> amidxtaped: time 0.004: rewinding tape ... >> amidxtaped: time 30.102: tape_rewind tape: /home/amanda/testSet1: >> Inappropriate ioctl for device >> amidxtaped: time 30.102: pid 25439 finish blah blah blah >> >> 1. The "Inappropriate..." must be because I use tapeless back up on a >> second hard drive. > >What's your tapedev in amanda.conf? You should use it. >Maybe it's 'file:/home/amanda/testSet1'. > I don't have an entry for tapedev in amanda.conf. I use chg-multi for the changer, with changerfile "/usr/.../changer.conf"
In changer.conf, there are these entries: slot 1 file:/home/amanda/testSet1 slot 2 file:/home/amanda/testSet2 ... >Jean-Louis >> >> 2. Is amrestore capable of restoring a whole directory tree??? >> And what goes wrong here? >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Odd Rune Dahle wrote: >> >Joshua Baker-LePain: >> > >> >>>>>EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on ns1. >> >>>> >> >>>>And did you do this? What's in that file? >> >>> >> >>>I'm sorry. I forgot to mention that this file doesn't exist. >> >> >> >>First off, what user you running that command as? If it's not root or >> >>amanda, then it's not going to pick up /tmp/amanda (where the debug files >> >>live), b/c /tmp/amanda has 700 permissions. >> > >> > >> >It was as root. But now that you mention /tmp/amanda, I checked there. >> >amrestore refer to amidxtaped.debug, but the file is named >> >amidxtaped.<timestamp>.debug.. no wonder the locate command didn't >> >find it :-) >> > >> >Things made a bit more sense once I found the debug-file: >> > >> >amrestore: could not open /dev/tape: Permission denied >> >amidxtaped: time 0.003: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2 >> >amidxtaped: time 0.003: rewinding tape ... >> >amidxtaped: time 0.003: tape_rewind: tape open: /dev/tape: Permission >> >denied >> >amidxtaped: time 0.003: pid 10103 finish time Fri Feb 28 07:19:30 2003 >> > >> >My xinetd-setup specified the wrong group for amidxtaped (bin), when I >> >use 'disk' as owner of the tape-device. Unfortunately there are >> >nobody on-site until monday morning, but we'll run a new test then. >> > >> >Thanks for the help :-) >> > >> > >-- >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 >
