On Friday 13 November 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> Explain why my amanda.config says the option I'm using is deprecated?
>
>That's not in the example configurations, so I assume that you wrote
>it. A google for the phrase "use amanda_changer now" only turns up
>references to this thread.
>
>Also, it says that tpchanger is deprecated and to use amanda_changer
>instead, which is flagrantly incorrect - the two are completely
>unrelated. So if someone told you that they should be chided
>vigorously.
>
>Dustin
Ok, I now see where I saw the mention of it, in the new example/amanda.conf,
it says:
======================
tapedev "tape:/dev/YOUR-TAPE-DEVICE-HERE" # tape changer or device to
use
# To use vtapes, create some slotN directories (slot0, slot1, etc.) under
# /var/amanda/vtapes and use this tapedev:
## tapedev "chg-disk:/var/amanda/vtapes"
======================
Now, I can do the above, and I also assume I can move them to
/usr.local/var/amanda, (and that this does not effect my present location for
the vtapes themselves, which is a separate 1 terrabyte drive mounted to
/amandatapes, ) where amanda keeps some other records also, but then what do
I do with the tpchanger setting? You say its unrelated? It is not used in
the new amanda.conf except inside a definition, but mine is not inside a
define {}.
That original advice did come from this list, but my corpus of old messages
doesn't reach back that far as it was at least a year ago, maybe even 2.
No actions are planned yet tonight though.
Thanks Dustin.
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