Hi Alexander
Thanks Yes I was hoping to extract to my /home/chuck which is NFS
mounted as this is also the main file and document server.
Thus I have cd on my backup server /tmp directory and will try again
Cheers
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
>
>
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