On Wednesday 08 September 2004 12:53, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >Hi, Gene Heskett, > >on Mittwoch, 08. September 2004 at 18:02 you wrote to amanda-users: > >GH> Greeting, particularly to Stephan W. > >GH> I'm in the process of trying to duplicate my old tape >GH> setup with a VLD, (very large disk, a 200 gigger) > >GH> In going thru your howto, I get to the point of doing >GH> the labeling and bomb out with illegal requests. > >GH> [EMAIL PROTECTED] DailySet1]$ amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-00 slot > 00 GH> amlabel: could not load slot "00": illegal request > >GH> The lines modified in amanda.conf are: >GH> --------------- >GH> runtapes 10 # number of tapes to be used in a single > run of amdump > >GH> #tpchanger "chg-scsi" # the tape-changer glue script >GH> tpchanger "chg-disk" > >GH> #tapedev "0" # the no-rewind tape device to > be used GH> tapedev "FILE:/amandatapes/DailySet1" > >GH> #changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/chg-scsi.conf" >GH> changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/chg-disk.conf" > >This should be > >changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer"
Aha! Thanks >and chg-disk creates > >changer.conf-access >changer.conf-clean >changer.conf-slot >changer.stat > >>From the HOWTO: > >--- > >The "changerfile"-parameter is used to give chg-disk the "prefix" > for the "%s-changer, %s-clean, %s-slot" files it needs. Use > something like "changer" in your config-dir. Please note that this > file does NOT have to exist, but it won't hurt anyway. > >--- > >What does > >amtape DailySet1 show > >tell you? > >For my setup this starts with slot 1, 2, ... > >Seems like you hit an error in my HOWTO. > >The loop to create the vtapes runs from 1 to 12, the loop to label >starts with 01, 02, ... I made them by hand, and chown-ed everything after. >This should be the cause. I will correct this in a minute (gets in > the online-docs). > >Sorry for the problem, thanks for digging it up. Let me save the fixed amanda.conf and see what happens, but I think the installed libs are hardcoded to use /dev/nst0 thanks to my gh.cf that I've published since forever here on this list. How should I modify that? Its presently: ------------ #!/bin/sh # since I'm always forgetting to su amanda... if [ `whoami` != 'amanda' ]; then echo echo "!!!!!!!!!!!! Warning !!!!!!!!!!!!" echo "Amanda needs to be configured and built by the user amanda," echo "but must be installed by user root." echo exit 1 fi make clean rm -f config.status config.cache ./configure --with-user=amanda \ --with-group=disk \ --with-owner=amanda \ --with-gnu-ld --prefix=/usr/local \ --with-tapedev=FILE:/amandatapes \ --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \ --with-tape-server=coyote.coyote.den \ --with-amandahosts \ --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda make --------------- Is this anywhere near usable? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.25% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.