On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 03:27:39PM +0200, Marc Muehlfeld wrote: > stan schrieb: > >amidxtaped: No tapedev specified > > Sure Maybe you should configure a tapedev?! > > > > > I set up 3 configs, one for the RAIT, and one each for disk_only, > > and tape_only. But when I try to use the alternate confis with > > amrecover, I get a "no indexes" message, so I have somthing wrong there. > > You mean, you have backuped with one config and and try to restore with an > other configuration and then it tells you "no indexes"? This results in > that your configurations have different index directories. You can 1) set > this to the same directory (to the one of the config you have used for > backup) or 2) copy the indexes to the second directory.
I would have thought including the main config file, where this is defined would have acompished this. The only entires in the disk_only, and tape_only config files are _differences_ from the main config file, which is included in all 3 configs. Am I missing something? > > > > > And the one for tape_only looks like this: > > ... > > tapedev "/dev/nst0" > > Seems OK, if nst0 is the drive you use. It is. > > > > > The config file for disk_only looks like this: > > No tapedev here? Set it to > tapedev "file:/...../slots" Like this? tapedev=file:/vtapes/DailDump > > > > >I'm invoking amrecover on the client like this: > >/opt/ama*/sbin/amrecover -s amanda -t amanda (as root). > > You have to specify the setname > amrecover [[-C] <config>] [-s <index-server>] [-t <tape-server>] OK, but the DailyDump is the defined in config, and I would not have thought I would have gotten as far as being allowed to slect the restore data set, and prompted for a tape if this was not working. Is this wrong? > > I don't tell amrecover the device. My server get this information out it's > configuration files accociated with the config-option. That has been my experince in the past too. But in this case it's not working. Of course, since it's a complex config I have a "point of fear" about this. > > > > >First question, what tape device should I specify to amrecover? Second > >question, what changes do I need to make to the tape_only, and disk_only > >configs to allow them to work corectly for restores? > > Other question first: Does all three configs work fine, for backup? > > > Regards and happy SysAdmin-Day. > Marc > > > -- > Marc Muehlfeld (Leitung Systemadministration) > Zentrum fuer Humangenetik und Laboratoriumsmedizin Dr. Klein und Dr. Rost > Lochhamer Str. 29 - D-82152 Martinsried > Telefon: +49(0)89/895578-0 - Fax: +49(0)89/895578-78 > http://www.medizinische-genetik.de -- I'm sorry, no one here has any intentions of helping you with anything. I am the manager of all of Customer Service."
