--On Monday, April 25, 2005 14:40 -0500 "Bryan K. Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm trying to restore some files and am running into errors. Some background:
The directory I am trying to restore sits on the same machine as the actual amanda backup server. Both the amanda client and amanda server are 2.4.4p3. I'm restoring the files on the same machine that did the actual backing up. I'm using tar version 1.13.25. From my research on the web, I know that there have been problems with certain version of tar, but 1.13.25 is supposed to be a good version. And since I'm using the same machine to extract as I am to compress, it seems that there shouldn't be any problems with different compression algorithms. Regardless of whether I use amrecover or amrestore, I get errors:
The two most common reasons i get these are 1) using the rewinding instead of non-rewinding tape device on accident, and 2) not using the correct restore programs.
not sure on your exact error but it might be worth a thought. the tape device you should be using will be /dev/nst? (/dev/nst0).
hopefully this is somewhere for you to look.
