On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 at 12:38pm, Ben Simpson wrote

> So it sounds to me that Amanda is aware of which tape it needs 
> (amrestore) and (amtape) can find the tape that it needs. So why can't 
> when I go to restore a file and get to the point were it is asking me 
> for the tape, why doesn't it find the tape?

I think you're confusing amrestore and amrecover.  amrestore just looks 
through the tape headers to find the dump image you specify (or not) on 
the command line.  You don't give amrestore a CONFIG, so it has no idea 
what's where.  amrecover, on the other hand, does know what tape it needs.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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