-matthew

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Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 18:28:39 -0700
From: "Matthew M. Austin" <maustin AT otsys DOT com>
Reply-To:  maustin AT otsys DOT com
To:  amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: amrecover file recovery errors

Greetings,

I am having trouble using amrecover to restore a file . . . I end up
having to go in at a much more granual level using amrestore.  I've read
in a few places that the errors I'm experiencing below would seem to be
permissions and/or rewind device related but you'll see that I appear to
actually have the correct permissions and the tape was rewound.

. . .

thanks,

-matthew

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amrecover
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start:/etc# amrecover -C amanda-daily -s eternal -t eternal
AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on eternal ...
220 eternal AMANDA index server (2.4.2) ready.
200 Access OK
Setting restore date to today (2002-08-06)
200 Working date set to 2002-08-06.
200 Config set to amanda-daily.
200 Dump host set to start.
$CWD '/etc' is on disk '/' mounted at '/'.
200 Disk set to /.
/etc
WARNING: not on root of selected filesystem, check man-page!
amrecover> add motd~
Added /etc/motd~
amrecover> extract

Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host eternal.
The following tapes are needed: OCB5

Restoring files into directory /etc
Continue? [Y/n]: y

Load tape OCB5 now

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different shell
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backup@eternal:~$ /usr/sbin/amtape amanda-daily slot 5
amtape: changed to slot 5 on /dev/nst0
backup@eternal:~$ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind

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Continue? [Y/n]: y
EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on eternal.
amrecover: short block 0 bytes
UNKNOWN file
amrecover: Can't read file header
extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1

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amidxtaped.debug
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eternal:/tmp/amanda# cat amidxtaped.debug
amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 12265 ruid 34 euid 34 start time Tue Aug  6
18:09:08 2002
amidxtaped: version 2.4.2
 > SECURITY USER root
bsd security: remote host start user root local user backup
amandahosts security check passed
 > 6
amrestore_nargs=6
 > -h
 > -p
 > /dev/nst0
 > start
 > ^/$
 > 20020803
Ready to execv amrestore with:
path = /usr/sbin/amrestore
argv[0] = "amrestore"
argv[1] = "-h"
argv[2] = "-p"
argv[3] = "/dev/nst0"
argv[4] = "start"
argv[5] = "^/$"
argv[6] = "20020803"
amrestore: could not open tape /dev/nst0: Permission denied
amidxtaped: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2
Rewinding tape: no tape online
amidxtaped: pid 12265 finish time Tue Aug  6 18:09:08 2002

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permissions
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eternal:/tmp/amanda# ll /dev/nst0
crw-rw----    1 root     tape       9, 128 Mar 10  2001 /dev/nst0
eternal:/tmp/amanda# cat /etc/group | grep tape
tape:x:26:backup