On Friday 07 November 2003 16:27, Stephen Walton wrote: >On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:33, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 09:22:49AM -0800, Stephen Walton wrote: >> > what exactly do I put >> > in amanda.conf to have amrecover automatically change to the >> > correct tape? >> >> Did you check the amanda man page? >> >> amrecover_changer "string" > >Thanks for the response, Jon. It turns out that both questions I > asked (why was amrecover failing and how to get it to work with the > changer) are related. I found by experiment that I have to > "settape /dev/nst0" in amrecover before it will work, and then also > manually load the tape amrecover says it needs. > >I do know of the amrecover_changer parameter, and it is set to >"/dev/nst0"in my amanda.conf, but amrecover still does not change >tapes. The relevant lines from my configuration are
I believe thats the wrong device, should it not be /dev/sgX?, where the X is derived from your /var/log/dmesg when it discovered the changer? >tpchanger "chg-scsi" >tapedev 0 >changerfile "/etc/opt/amanda/daily/chg-scsi-compaq.conf" >amrecover_changer "/dev/nst0" > >This does not work with amrecover but I'm unable to find a > combination which does. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
