You try to recover from the device PSI_ASM_DailySet130,
amrestore expect a device name, not a label.
Use the settape command in amrecover (eg. settape /dev/nst0)

Jean-Louis

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:26:57AM -0500, yahoogroups AT spampot DOT com wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I've managed to get a tapeless backup running OK on 2.4.3 on RedHat 7.2 (and 
> GNUTAR 1.13.19) but when I try an amrecover extract I get the following 
> messages:
> 
> [QUOTE]
> EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on pc3690.asm.psi.ch.
> amrecover: short block 0 bytes
> UNKNOWN file
> amrecover: Can't read file header
> extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
> [UNQUOTE]
> 
> The amidxtaped*debug tells me the following:
> 
> [QUOTE]
> amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 18465 ruid 508 euid 508: start at Tue Jan 21 19:00:16 
> 2003
> amidxtaped: version 2.4.3
> amidxtaped: time 0.000: > SECURITY USER root
> amidxtaped: time 0.001: bsd security: remote host pc3690.asm.psi.ch user root 
> local user amanda
> amidxtaped: time 0.001: amandahosts security check passed
> amidxtaped: time 0.001: > 6
> amidxtaped: time 0.001: amrestore_nargs=6
> amidxtaped: time 0.001: > -h
> amidxtaped: time 0.001: > -p
> amidxtaped: time 0.001: > PSI_ASM_DailySet130
> amidxtaped: time 0.001: > ^pc3690$
> amidxtaped: time 0.001: > ^/home$
> amidxtaped: time 0.002: > 20030120
> amidxtaped: time 0.002: Ready to execv amrestore with:
> path = /usr/local/sbin/amrestore
> argv[0] = "amrestore"
> argv[1] = "-h"
> argv[2] = "-p"
> argv[3] = "PSI_ASM_DailySet130"
> argv[4] = "^pc3690$"
> argv[5] = "^/home$"
> argv[6] = "20030120"
> amrestore: could not stat PSI_ASM_DailySet130
> amidxtaped: time 0.010: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2
> amidxtaped: could not stat PSI_ASM_DailySet130
> amidxtaped: time 0.010: could not stat PSI_ASM_DailySet130
> amidxtaped: time 0.010: pid 18465 finish time Tue Jan 21 19:00:16 2003
> [UNQUOTE]
> 
> Any ideas what might be going wrong here?  I've tried doing a "rewind" of the 
> "tape" directory but it seems to make no difference.
> 
> All advice/assistance appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> Regards, Ralph.
> 

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