Thanks John for your replies. I have some additional comments....
>>I am trying to use localhost as the host & tape names when doing an amdump
>>and amrecover. ...
>
>Why? In general, I've always advised against this. For one thing, if
>you ever change your configuration around and use a different server,
>"localhost" is going to be the wrong name. Why not use FQDN's from
>the start?
>
>There shouldn't be any performance issues with "localhost" over the
>local FQDN. Most OS's will detect this and automatically use the
>loopback interface.
I have been testing using localhost as well as FQDN... I noticed that localhost fails
when doing amrecover,
so I was wondering why it would fail.
>If you look in your index directory, what's at the next layer? Does it
>list "localhost" or the FQDN? It should be whatever you have in your
>disklist.
localhost is listed
Dan
