--On Thursday, February 13, 2003 22:02:46 -0700 Jim Richard <jimr AT psi DOT 
edu> wrote:

> I can't seem to get amrecover to work.
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> I have a single server running amanda, with an SDLT drive attached to
> it. All my clients are being backed up without problems. (I have done
> recent recoveries "manually.")
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> However, when I try to run amrecover from a client, when I issue the
> extract, amrecover fails and tells me to check the amidxtaped log file
> on the server.
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> I do and at the end of it I see:
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> Ready to execv amrestore with:
> path = /usr/local/sbin/amrestore
> argv[0] = "amrestore"
> argv[1] = "-h"
> argv[2] = "-p"
> argv[3] = "/dev/nst0"
> argv[4] = "lun"
> argv[5] = "^/home$"
> argv[6] = "20030120"
> amrestore: could not open tape /dev/nst0: Permission denied
> amidxtaped: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2
> Rewinding tape: no tape online
> amidxtaped: pid 27373 finish time Thu Feb 13 17:16:29 2003
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> the amrecover command I use on the client:
> /usr/local/sbin/amrecover -C set1 -s godzilla -t godzilla -d /dev/nst0
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> godzilla is my amanda/tape server, lun is the client I'm trying to run
> it on.
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> all the clients are having no problem talking to /dev/nst0 on the tape
> server during backup, why would amrecover be having a problem. Something
> to do with having to run amrecover as root on the client ????

Are you running amrecover as root on the client?  You should be.

Frank

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