John,
Thanks for your advice below (setting changerfile) as I am much further
along, past amlabel and amcheck and up to trying to use amdump.
Amanda seems to thinks i have a tape changer: when i enter "amdump
Dell-Full" I'm told to keep putting in more tapes. Why?
Here i'm simply taking out the same tape and re-inserting it:
insert tape into slot 1 and press return
insert tape into slot 2 and press return
insert tape into slot 3 and press return
insert tape into slot 4 and press return
Then I put in a fresh, blank tape and got:
insert tape into slot 5 and press return
^C'ing out and retrying produces much the same thing. What could be
wrong? I have very simple setup: 1 machine as both client and server, with
1 tape drive with 1 slot. I have just "dellmachine /boot root-tar" in
disklist.
thank you,
george herson
"John R. Jackson" wrote:
> >(/usr/adm/amanda/changer-status-clean: No such file or directory):
>
> The Amanda changers now want to store three "state" files. All the file
> names are based on the "changerfile" variable in your amanda.conf.
>
> My guess is you have not set that variable, it's defaulting to
> /usr/adm/amanda/changer and directory /usr/adm/amanda does not exist.
> This is not your fault -- I think some new ideas slipped in without
> fully comprehending their impact. Sorry.
>
> Try setting "changerfile" to someplace Amanda can write, such as the
> directory that holds your tapelist file. Make sure the name ends in
> "/changer" because the other names add a suffix on to that.
>
> For instance, if tapelist is in directory /usr/local/etc/amanda/xxx,
> add this to amanda.conf:
>
> changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/xxx/changer"
>
> This will cause these files to be created:
>
> /usr/local/etc/amanda/xxx/changer-clean
> /usr/local/etc/amanda/xxx/changer-access
> /usr/local/etc/amanda/xxx/changer-slot
>
> Or you can pick some other directory. Just as long as the Amanda user
> has write access to it.
>
> >george herson
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
