Hi Alexander

I was able to extract the file to ./tmp/myserver-file-recovery as a test
exercise.

Cheers
For the pointer.

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 14:28 +0100, Alexander Jolk wrote:
> Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote:
> > I still unable to trouble shoot I can see the file and other files and
> > directories but unable to extract.
> > 
> > Error Message output
> > 
> > amanda tar: ./tmp/myserver-file-recovery: Cannot open: Not a directory
> > 
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> It would seem to me you didn't have the necessary permissions to create 
> the directory `tmp' when you did the restore.  That's either because you 
> weren't root, or you were on an NFS-mounted file-system with root 
> squashing, or a file named `tmp' existed in your current directory.
> 
> I always restore (space permitting) into my machine's local /tmp as 
> root, in order to avoid this kind of problem.
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
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