On Wed, 15 May 2019 22:18:42 -0400
Nathan Stratton Treadway <natha...@ontko.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 19:58:52 -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 May 2019 20:48:46 -0400
> > Nathan Stratton Treadway <natha...@ontko.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 17:02:57 -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> >
> > Here's what I do to customize:
> >
> > cp -rp /var/lib/amanda/example/amanda.conf ${confDir}
> >
> > # Now adjust the configuration to suit.
> > cd ${confDir}
> > sed -i -e
> > "s/tape:\/dev\/YOUR-TAPE-DEVICE-HERE/chg-disk:\/var\/amanda\/vtapes/"
> > amanda.conf sed -i -e 's/tapetype HP-DAT/tapetype HARD-DISK/'
> > amanda.conf
> >
> > And that seems to works. It does produce one spurious commented out
> > change, on line 118.
>
> When you say "that seems to work", do you mean it fixes amrecover, or
> just that the sed commands do edit the lines in the amanda.conf file?
Sorry. I mean that the sed commands do edit the lines.
>
> As far as I understand, amrecover looks at amanda-client.conf (and not
> amanda.conf), so to get amrecover to work without the "-d" command
> line option you'd need to do do some editing of the -client file.
Bingo.
>
> (But given that the official Debian packages work the way you want
> without any -client file at all, I'm thinking that it makes sense to
> simply comment out the tapdev line in the -client file, rather than
> edit it to make it match the amanda.conf file [though as long as the
> two lines are in sync the net effect is probably the same].)
Indeed, that is the case on all the hosts in my existing setup. The
tapedev line is commented out. That works on the testbed as
well. Methinks that's a better solution, as it would *usually* require
that changes be made only in one place.
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