Just to clarify: I have two identical tape drives daisy-chained to the server. I'm now using chg-multi, with a chg-multi.conf file that defines the two physical drives as two different slots: slot 1 tape:/dev/nst0 slot 2 tape:/dev/nst1
So if one of the tape drives should break or die, and I have to restore a disklist entry that is spanned across two tapes, how do I handle that? Paul pointed out that I'd be able to use amrecover and specify the working tape drive to use, or that I could change chg-multi.conf to define only one slot (pointing at the working drive). That would work in a case where the disklist entry isn't spanned across two tapes, in my mind. But if the disklist entry is spanned across two tapes, will amrecover prompt for a second tape during the recovery process (and accept it when inserted into the same slot as the previous tape), or will I have to use amrestore? Don't know if my question makes good sense...but thanks anyway for bearing with me. Johan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell Sent: 25 June 2008 14:39 To: Johan Booysen Cc: amanda List Subject: Re: Amanda 2.6.0 spanning On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Johan Booysen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still not 100% sure on how to perform restores if a disklist entry > is spanned across two tapes, but one of the tape drives have died. > Would I need to use amrestore instead of amrecover, and then manually > untar all the restored chunks? If a recover requires multiple tapes, then amrecover will ask for them, either via the changer script (I've forgotten whether you're using chg-manual or not) or manually. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
