Error with chg-disk

2020-07-13 Thread Ansgar Esztermann-Kirchner
Hello List, I'm trying to use amanda with vtapes, but so far have been unable to. The way I read amcheck output, amanda tries to use slot 0 and slot (empty string) instead of starting at slot one. Is that true? If so, what would cause such a behaviour? The setup has never run, so it's quite possi

Re: Error with chg-disk

2020-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.07.20 um 13:25 schrieb Ansgar Esztermann-Kirchner: > Hello List, > > I'm trying to use amanda with vtapes, but so far have been unable to. > The way I read amcheck output, amanda tries to use slot 0 and slot > (empty string) instead of starting at slot one. > Is that true? If so, what would

Re: Error with chg-disk

2020-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.07.20 um 14:58 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 13.07.20 um 13:25 schrieb Ansgar Esztermann-Kirchner: >> Hello List, >> >> I'm trying to use amanda with vtapes, but so far have been unable to. >> The way I read amcheck output, amanda tries to use slot 0 and slot >> (empty string) instead of

Re: Error with chg-disk

2020-07-13 Thread Ansgar Esztermann-Kirchner
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 02:58:55PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > off-topic, but recommended: better avoid using "localhost" as hostname > in your DLEs ... OK, I'll look into it. > > From your mail it's not clear if you successfully labelled and created > your virtual tapes. > > Seems

Re: Error with chg-disk

2020-07-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:53:51 +0200 Ansgar Esztermann-Kirchner wrote: > > From your mail it's not clear if you successfully labelled and > > created your virtual tapes. > > > > Seems not: "tapelist file does not exists" > > Oh dear. I thought I had created (though not labelled) them; but it >

Re: Error with chg-disk

2020-07-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.07.20 um 18:30 schrieb Charles Curley: > On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:53:51 +0200 > Ansgar Esztermann-Kirchner wrote: > >>> From your mail it's not clear if you successfully labelled and >>> created your virtual tapes. >>> >>> Seems not: "tapelist file does not exists" >> >> Oh dear. I thought

Re: Error with chg-disk

2020-07-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.07.20 um 16:53 schrieb Ansgar Esztermann-Kirchner: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 02:58:55PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> >> off-topic, but recommended: better avoid using "localhost" as hostname >> in your DLEs ... > > OK, I'll look into it. > >> >> From your mail it's not clear if you

scripted Amanda install procedure (Re: Error with chg-disk)

2020-07-20 Thread Markus Storm
FWIW, I've created a bash installation procedure to get simplified user input to create an Amanda vtape based config. We bundle Amanda as the backup tool in openHABian, a software appliance for the openHAB home automation system. https://github.com/openhab/openhabian/blob/master/functions/backup.b

Re: scripted Amanda install procedure (Re: Error with chg-disk)

2020-07-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.07.20 um 10:18 schrieb Markus Storm: > FWIW, I've created a bash installation procedure to get simplified user > input to create an Amanda vtape based config. > We bundle Amanda as the backup tool in openHABian, a software appliance > for the openHAB home automation system. > https://github.c