On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 09:13, Stephen Walton wrote: > Thanks so much, Paul. I've installed the 2003-11-07 snapshot and made > the above change to my amanda.conf, and amrecover now uses the changer! > Should the amanda man page be changed to specifically state that > amrecover_changer should be the name of the tape changer script you're > using and not the name of a tape or changer device?
To answer my own question: because it isn't needed. I violated a cardinal rule of both science and software testing, which is to change only one thing at a time. It turns out that I had made a small mistake in my configuration of the 2003-11-07 Amanda snapshot which resulted in amrecover still using the 2.4.4p1 version of amrestore rather than the one from the snapshot. Once I fixed that, setting amrecover_changer to "/dev/nst0" and "settape /dev/nst0" in amrecover worked as well. It does seem odd, though; can amrecover_changer be any arbitrary string to trigger use of the changer? -- Stephen Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge
