Mario Silva Borrego schrieb:

> any thoughts ?

Sure ....

> amrecover: warning: using /dev/null as the tape device will not work

Choose your correct tape-device (the one you use as "tapedev" in your
amanda.conf) at the step

> Extracting files using tape drive /dev/null on host amanda.nmcourts.com.
> Load tape ws2003sms01-Backups-9 now
> Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]?

via "t"

or by adding the option "-d tape-device" to amrecover.

"man amrecover" also helps, but don't tell anyone, we keep those infos
secret ....       ;-)

> warning: restore program for /usr/bin/smbclient not available.
> amrecover couldn't exec: No such file or directory
> problem executing restore

this is another story ... try upper suggestions first and let us know.

Stefan