Toralf Lund --> amanda-users (2004-10-18 16:07:48 +0200): > Jukka Salmi wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I'm using the chg-disk tape changer. When restoring files using > >amrecover, after adding some files and issuing the extract command, > >amrecover tells me what tapes are needed, and asks me to "Load tape > ><label> now". I load the needed tape using amtape, and tell amrecover > >to continue. After a while I'm promted to load another tape, and > >so on... > > > >Is it possible to automate the process of loading the needed tapes? > > > > > Yes. I'm using the following tape device setup to do this: > > tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx" > tapedev "/dev/nrtape" > rawtapedev "/dev/tape" > changerfile "chg-mtx" > changerdev "/dev/changer" > > amrecover_changer "/dev/nrtape" > amrecover_do_fsf yes > amrecover_check_label yes > > It's amrecover_changer that does the trick; essentially it tells > amrecover to use the tape changer or the tape device is set to /dev/nrtape.
That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you! Regards, Jukka -- bashian roulette: $ ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~
