Hi Alexander I was able to extract the file to ./tmp/myserver-file-recovery as a test exercise.
Cheers For the pointer. On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 14:28 +0100, Alexander Jolk wrote: > Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: > > I still unable to trouble shoot I can see the file and other files and > > directories but unable to extract. > > > > Error Message output > > > > amanda tar: ./tmp/myserver-file-recovery: Cannot open: Not a directory > > > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > It would seem to me you didn't have the necessary permissions to create > the directory `tmp' when you did the restore. That's either because you > weren't root, or you were on an NFS-mounted file-system with root > squashing, or a file named `tmp' existed in your current directory. > > I always restore (space permitting) into my machine's local /tmp as > root, in order to avoid this kind of problem. > > Alex > > -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator Chuck Amadi The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Email chuck.smtl.co.uk Tel: +44 1656 752820 Fax: +44 1656 752830
