On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 10:42am, jessica blackburn wrote

> I am trying to backup a windows file system.  i have it mounted so i can
> see the files are in a directory on the linux side.  however, when i try
> to back them up i am getting this error.  is there any suggestions?

Not really necessary -- amanda can use smbclient to backup 'doze clients 
that aren't mounted.  If you want it mounted all the time, you can just 
use tar to back up the mount point.

> Extracting files using tape drive file:/backup/ on host hccweb.
> Load tape DailySet1011 now
> Continue [?/Y/n/t]? Y
> EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on hccweb.
> amrecover: short block 0 bytes
> UNKNOWN file
> amrecover: Can't read file header
> extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1

Err, amrecover is a recovery tool (hence the name) not a backup tool.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University