Hi, Gene Heskett, on Mittwoch, 08. September 2004 at 18:02 you wrote to amanda-users:
GH> Greeting, particularly to Stephan W. GH> I'm in the process of trying to duplicate my old tape GH> setup with a VLD, (very large disk, a 200 gigger) GH> In going thru your howto, I get to the point of doing GH> the labeling and bomb out with illegal requests. GH> [EMAIL PROTECTED] DailySet1]$ amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-00 slot 00 GH> amlabel: could not load slot "00": illegal request GH> The lines modified in amanda.conf are: GH> --------------- GH> runtapes 10 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump GH> #tpchanger "chg-scsi" # the tape-changer glue script GH> tpchanger "chg-disk" GH> #tapedev "0" # the no-rewind tape device to be used GH> tapedev "FILE:/amandatapes/DailySet1" GH> #changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/chg-scsi.conf" GH> changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/chg-disk.conf" This should be changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer" and chg-disk creates changer.conf-access changer.conf-clean changer.conf-slot changer.stat >From the HOWTO: --- The "changerfile"-parameter is used to give chg-disk the "prefix" for the "%s-changer, %s-clean, %s-slot" files it needs. Use something like "changer" in your config-dir. Please note that this file does NOT have to exist, but it won't hurt anyway. --- What does amtape DailySet1 show tell you? For my setup this starts with slot 1, 2, ... Seems like you hit an error in my HOWTO. The loop to create the vtapes runs from 1 to 12, the loop to label starts with 01, 02, ... This should be the cause. I will correct this in a minute (gets in the online-docs). Sorry for the problem, thanks for digging it up. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]