Am 08.11.18 um 18:52 schrieb Chris Miller:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>     *From: *"Stefan G. Weichinger" <[email protected]>
  >      /etc should contain only config

> In my case, I will have a set of config -- probably one for each client,
> so in a first pass at generalization, I symlinked the vtapes as "./dst"
> This may not turn out to be helpful, but I won't know until I have a few
> more hours under my belt.

I would avoid symlinks here ... at least until things work. Just my opinion.

> I distinguish locally attached devices (mounted under "/mnt") from
> network attached devices. I don't know it this is important, but if
> keeps me aware of what I am doing, since putting huge amount of traffic
> on the LAN has performance consequences to the users that copying huge
> amount of data around among locally attached devices does not. This is
> probably just a matter of style.

maybe. As you like, but I recommend following the recommendations until
things work and optionally THEN do your own style ;-)

>      chown these dirs (= mounted fs) to your amandauser to allow amanda
>      rw-access.
>      
>      and then define your chg-disk changer as in:
>      
>      tpchanger "chg-disk:/mnt/externaldisk1"
>      
>      proceed from there ...
> 
> I think I've done that. I suspect my problem is going to be more subtle.
> Like, for example, I named my "slots" "vtape.00 -- vtape.62", but I find
> nowhere to tell AMANDA that. This is, in fact, probably my whole
> problem, which should be trivial to eliminate, once I learn how to tell
> AMANDA of my choice.

See other end of thread and Nathan's posting.

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