Hello...

I'm running amanda 2.6.1p1 on a rhel 5.4 server.  I am trying to restore
some files from a ~2 year old archive backup.  Since it is an archive
backup I have the write protect tab closed on the physical tape.  When I
try to run amrestore I get:

/usr/sbin/amrestore -p -h /dev/nst0 ... 
amrestore: Error reading volume label: Can't open tape device /dev/nst0:
Read-only file system.

Why does amrestore want to write to the tape?




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