Paul Bijnens wrote:
Jukka Salmi wrote:
Paul Bijnens --> amanda-users (2004-10-18 22:14:10 +0200):
Before the chg-disk tape changer was written, I used the chg-multi changer with the file-driver. It's a little more complicated to configure, but the advantage is that it finds and load automatically the vtapes.
To what extent (with regard to functionality) does this differ from using chg-disk and setting amrecover_changer to the same value as tapedev?
Just tried this out with the chg-disk changer instead of the chg-multi and it works fine indeed. Don't know why I thought it wouldn't.
One remark about amrecover_changer: because a changer does not have
a name in /dev (especially the chg-disk, or the chg-multi changer),
amanda introduced the "amrecover_changer" parameter to name your changer. My changer is called: amrecover_changer "changer" .
Some people (distro's even) call it /dev/null, some the same as
an existing tapedevice. Personally I find that confusing.
Yes. Personally I'm using the following parameters for a config that dumps to disk (using chg-multi):
tpchanger "chg-multi" changerfile "chg-multi.conf" tapedev "changer" rawtapedev "/dev/null" amrecover_changer "changer" amrecover_check_label yes
The values I posted earlier were actually for a real tape changer setup.
- Toralf
