Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-12 Thread Stephen Walton
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 15:46, Paul Bijnens wrote: Stephen Walton wrote: amanda.conf has the lines: tpchanger chg-scsi# the tape-changer glue script tapedev 0 changerfile /etc/opt/amanda/daily/chg-scsi-compaq.conf amrecover_changer /dev/nst0 That should be: amrecover_changer

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-12 Thread Stephen Walton
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 09:13, Stephen Walton wrote: Thanks so much, Paul. I've installed the 2003-11-07 snapshot and made the above change to my amanda.conf, and amrecover now uses the changer! Should the amanda man page be changed to specifically state that amrecover_changer should be the

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 03:39:22PM -0800, Stephen Walton wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 09:44, Paul Bijnens wrote: Stephen Walton wrote: I'm guessing from the responses I'm getting that no one else on the list is even trying to use a changer directly from amrecover? Which version

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-10 Thread Stephen Walton
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 21:37, Jon LaBadie wrote: I don't think anyone said [tape and changer] had to be the same. Changer is (should be) /dev/sgX. Tape is (should be) /dev/nstX When it asks for changer try sg, when it asks for tape try nst. I think I did this. There is no 'setchanger'

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
Stephen Walton wrote: I'm guessing from the responses I'm getting that no one else on the list is even trying to use a changer directly from amrecover? I know a lot of you have changers; is everyone else simply manually using amtape to load the appropriate tape? I suppose if you have multiple

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 November 2003 12:16, Stephen Walton wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 21:37, Jon LaBadie wrote: I don't think anyone said [tape and changer] had to be the same. Changer is (should be) /dev/sgX. Tape is (should be) /dev/nstX When it asks for changer try sg, when it asks for tape try

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-10 Thread Stephen Walton
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 09:44, Paul Bijnens wrote: Stephen Walton wrote: I'm guessing from the responses I'm getting that no one else on the list is even trying to use a changer directly from amrecover? Which version are you using? I was using 2.4.4p1 but after your message I gave the

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
Stephen Walton wrote: I was using 2.4.4p1 but after your message I gave the November 7 snapshot a try. I suppose it fixes the problem of the lack of an 'amrecover_check_header' line in my amanda.conf. However, it still doesn't seem to work for me. I'm sure I'm being extraordinarily stupid here,

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
Paul Bijnens wrote: Stephen Walton wrote: I was using 2.4.4p1 but after your message I gave the November 7 snapshot a try. I suppose it fixes the problem of the lack of an 'amrecover_check_header' line in my amanda.conf. However, it still doesn't seem to work for me. I'm sure I'm being

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 09:07:36PM -0800, Stephen Walton wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 16:15, Gene Heskett wrote: Stephen Walton wrote: I do know of the amrecover_changer parameter, and it is set to /dev/nst0in my amanda.conf,.. I believe thats the wrong device, should it not be

Network recovery with changer

2003-11-07 Thread Stephen Walton
Setup: all RedHat 8 shop, Amanda 2.4.4p1 locally compiled, HP DAT-4 changer on server, some files which need to be recovered to client. ambackup runs fine on server: amverify as well as manual 'tar -tzvf' shows that the backups are fine. amrecover on server successfully runs and restores files

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 09:22:49AM -0800, Stephen Walton wrote: On a related topic, and one which I've searched in vain on the FAQ-O-Matic and every place else for the answer: what exactly do I put in amanda.conf to have amrecover automatically change to the correct tape? Did you check

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-07 Thread Stephen Walton
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:33, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 09:22:49AM -0800, Stephen Walton wrote: what exactly do I put in amanda.conf to have amrecover automatically change to the correct tape? Did you check the amanda man page? amrecover_changer string Thanks

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 01:27:28PM -0800, Stephen Walton wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:33, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 09:22:49AM -0800, Stephen Walton wrote: what exactly do I put in amanda.conf to have amrecover automatically change to the correct tape? Did

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 November 2003 16:27, Stephen Walton wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:33, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 09:22:49AM -0800, Stephen Walton wrote: what exactly do I put in amanda.conf to have amrecover automatically change to the correct tape? Did you check the amanda