Re: EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file [..]

>On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:54:40PM -0800, bao wrote:
>> I just got a similar problem to what Odd Rune Dahle described, with a
>> slightly different message.
>>
>> In the amidxtaped.<timestamp>.debug file, almost everything went fine
until:
>>
>> amrestore: error reading file header: Is a directory
>> amidxtaped: time 0.004: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2
>> amidxtaped: time 0.004: rewinding tape ...
>> amidxtaped: time 30.102: tape_rewind tape: /home/amanda/testSet1:
>> Inappropriate ioctl for device
>> amidxtaped: time 30.102: pid 25439 finish blah blah blah
>>
>> 1. The "Inappropriate..." must be because I use tapeless back up on a
>> second hard drive.
>
>What's your tapedev in amanda.conf? You should use it.
>Maybe it's 'file:/home/amanda/testSet1'.
>
I don't have an entry for tapedev in amanda.conf. I use chg-multi for the
changer, with
changerfile "/usr/.../changer.conf"

In changer.conf, there are these entries:

slot 1 file:/home/amanda/testSet1
slot 2 file:/home/amanda/testSet2
...



>Jean-Louis
>>
>> 2. Is amrestore capable of restoring a whole directory tree???
>> And what goes wrong here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Odd Rune Dahle wrote:
>> >Joshua Baker-LePain:
>> >
>> >>>>>EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on ns1.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>And did you do this?  What's in that file?
>> >>>
>> >>>I'm sorry. I forgot to mention that this file doesn't exist.
>> >>
>> >>First off, what user you running that command as?  If it's not root or
>> >>amanda, then it's not going to pick up /tmp/amanda (where the debug
files
>> >>live), b/c /tmp/amanda has 700 permissions.
>> >
>> >
>> >It was as root. But now that you mention /tmp/amanda, I checked there.
>> >amrestore refer to amidxtaped.debug, but the file is named
>> >amidxtaped.<timestamp>.debug.. no wonder the locate command didn't
>> >find it :-)
>> >
>> >Things made a bit more sense once I found the debug-file:
>> >
>> >amrestore: could not open /dev/tape: Permission denied
>> >amidxtaped: time 0.003: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2
>> >amidxtaped: time 0.003: rewinding tape ...
>> >amidxtaped: time 0.003: tape_rewind: tape open: /dev/tape: Permission
>> >denied
>> >amidxtaped: time 0.003: pid 10103 finish time Fri Feb 28 07:19:30 2003
>> >
>> >My xinetd-setup specified the wrong group for amidxtaped (bin), when I
>> >use 'disk' as owner of the tape-device.  Unfortunately there are
>> >nobody on-site until monday morning, but we'll run a new test then.
>> >
>> >Thanks for the help :-)
>> >
>>
>
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