Just a quick follow-up: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:17:16PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Device or resource busy? I haven't seen it do this before. I'm > assuming it means my tape-drive? I'm not sure why it would be busy, but > does anyone know what I could to do fix this?
I tried running 'lsof /dev/nst1' and it didn't show anything using the process. I then did 'watch -n1 /dev/nst1' and it showed the amanda process come up and use the tape drive (nothing else), so I *think* i can safely conclude that it is another file that is being locked? I tested one other remote box to do a restore w/ the same results. I then attempted to restore my mailbox on the backup-server, which worked: Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst1 on host localhost. Load tape DailySet1037 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? y tar: ./var/cache/man/index.db: invalid sparse archive member tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: ./var/cache/man/local/index.db: invalid sparse archive member tar: Skipping to next header tar: ./var/cache/man/oldlocal/index.db: invalid sparse archive member tar: Skipping to next header ./var/mail/cmatheson tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 2 I'm not sure if those warnings should concern me or not. I opened up the mbox in mutt and it looked fine. Not sure why the restore worked locally, but not for clients over the network, they've always worked in the past. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Cameron Matheson
