Hi all, I am using amanda with IOmega disks and a home grown tape changer that I announced earlier in this forum. As there is no robot for this kind of backup media, a warm body is needed to get the IOmega disk into the slot. So the tape changer tells amanda, that it is searchable. It is doing the seach by opening a TTY and asks the user to insert the correct tape (well, IOmega disk) and waits for a keyboard hit signalling that the tape has been loaded.
This works fine for amdump, but fails for amrecover. I got beyond the point that amrecover uses the tape changer. By inspecting various log files in /tmp/amanda I found out that the tape changer indeed is called to search for a specific tape, but bails out saying "Cannot open TTY". Am I right in my perception that this is a feature rather than a bug, because amrecover contacts the tape server via socket connection and the tape server (possibly even residing on a different host) does not have a TTY ? If my perception is right, is there any other way for the tape changer to communicate with the person that called amrecover (perhaps using the socket connection) ? If there is indeed no such way, is it safe to assume that either the tape changer can open a TTY (and contact the user) or it can assume that the front end has already asked the user to insert the correct tape ? In the latter case I would change the tape changer code not to exit if it can't open a TTY, but continue assuming that the correct tape (aka IOmega disk) already is in the slot. -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen/Best Regards Dr. Christoph Pospiech High Performance & Parallel Computing Advanced Computing Technology Center Phone +49-621-469450, Fax: ...-469200, eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile +49-171 765 5871 ---- Please Note new Tel+FAX Number ----
