amrecover does not change the tape by itself. You have to keep in mind that the "chg-disk" emulates a robotic with the hard drive. And amrecover (certainly due to security reasons that I won't discuss here) does not automatically search the correct tape in the robot: the tape(s) you want to use when restoring have to be in the tape device when needed. In my case I have 2 xterms, one with amrecover, and the other one where I run amtape to load the right tape when amrecover tells me to do it.
On 22 Jan 2004 11:54:11 -0700 Marc Langlois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan, > > The settape section of the man page for amrecover says: > > "settape [[server]:][tapedev|default] > > If you want amrecover to use your changer, the tapedev must be equal > to the amrecover_changer setting on the server." > > I used this setting in amanda.conf: > > amrecover_changer chg-disk > > then, in amrecover: > > settape chg-disk > > and the extract invokes the chg-disk script and sets the "./data" > sym-link to the correct slot automatically. Very nice! > > Marc. > > > > It appears that using "settape chg-disk" in amrecover > On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 09:17, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Hi, Marc, > > > > on Donnerstag, 22. J�nner 2004 at 16:59 you wrote to amanda-users: > > > > ML> I'm using the chg-disk changer. Does amrecover use the changer script? > > > > Good question. There is the parameter amrecover_changer which > > explicitly sets the changer used. Maybe you try to set this in your > > conf. > > > > ML> And would it be possible to modify the script to choose the correct > > ML> slot? > > > > As soon as I know it I will tell you ;) > > Practically YES, it is possible. >
