Hi I have seen something very interesting on the changelog of amanda2.4.4b1 it s the ability of amrecover ( and related servers ) to use the changer.
i have setup successfully amanda with a tapeless configuration with the chg-multi script. then i m trying to configure the amrecover to use the the changer here s the related portion of file on my configuration amrecover_do_fsf yes amrecover_check_label yes # amrecover will call amrestore with the amrecover_changer "changer" but when i launch amrecover i got the following error Extracting files using tape drive changer on host backup.int-evry.fr. Load tape DSK05 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? Y EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on backup.int-evry.fr. amrecover: short block 0 bytes UNKNOWN file amrecover: Can't read file header extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 Continue [?/Y/n/r]? r when i look at amidxtaped.debug i see amidxtaped: time 0.351: > HEADER amidxtaped: time 0.351: > DEVICE=changer amidxtaped: time 0.351: > HOST=^molure$ amidxtaped: time 0.351: > DISK=^/var/spool/imap1$ amidxtaped: time 0.351: > DATESTAMP=20030223 amidxtaped: time 0.351: > END amidxtaped: time 0.351: config 'testdisk' valeur DSK05: label 'changer' not found changer: got exit: 0 str: 5 7 1 changer_query: changer return was 7 1 changer_query: searchable = 0 changer_find: looking for DSK05 changer is searchable = 0 changer: got exit: 0 str: 5 file:/var/lib/backuppc/amanda/t5 amidxtaped: time 0.438: slot 5: date 20030223 label DSK05 (exact label match) amidxtaped: time 0.438: label "DSK05" found amidxtaped: time 0.438: amrestore_nargs=0 amidxtaped: time 0.438: Ready to execv amrestore with: path = /usr/local/sbin/amrestore argv[0] = "amrestore" argv[1] = "-p" argv[2] = "-h" argv[3] = "-l" argv[4] = "DSK05" argv[5] = "-f" argv[6] = "16" argv[7] = "changer" argv[8] = "^molure$" argv[9] = "^/var/spool/imap1$" argv[10] = "20030223" amrestore: could not stat changer: No such file or directory It seems that the changer give the device to use but the daemon amidxtaped didn't used that value. is it supported or should i modify the code to make it work? Thanks in advance. -- Eric Doutreleau I.N.T | Tel : +33 (0) 160764687 9 rue Charles Fourier | Fax : +33 (0) 160764321 91011 Evry France | email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]