I tried the following things, and I still get the problem of "Not a device
file".

>(Jon LaBadie wrote:) If I understand changer-status, your comment "created
by wab" should not have been created or touched in any way by wab.

Well, I thought that I shouldn't be touching changer-status either, but
every time I went to do an "amlabel" (Which I thought would be a first step,
but I'll try ammt & amtape like you suggested), it kept prompting me, saying
stuff was missing from the changer-status! I think possibly I am referencing
this file in an incorrect location?

>(Jon LaBadie wrote:) You have two statefile definitions, one in
changer.conf and another
in changer-status.

Gah! *fixed*. I am using the one in /var/lib/amanda/DailyNAS1.

>(Paul Bijnens wrote:)Just verifying: you are using amanda 2.4.3 or later?

NO I am using 2.4.1p1.

One potential problem was maybe fixed: I did a manual check of the directory
I'm trying to use to back up to... and my user "backup" did NOT have
permission in the "data" directory! However, after doing this and attempting
to do amlabel, it still screwed up. So at least, I know that it's not that.

I sincerely thank you all for your help and patience.

p.s. I still can't figure out why I can't get my amanda.conf file to open...
it'll copy to the NAS (which has SMB installed as well) and all my other
config files I can open w/notepad & copy/paste into e-mail. Except for
amanda.conf. Root is supposed to have RW on this sucker, but I can view the
directory, delete the file, RENAME the file... but I cannot view its
contents or copy it to my desktop! Argh! Confusing permissions thing there;
ancillary to this problem.

Wayne

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:jon AT jgcomp DOT com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:21 PM
To: 'amanda-users AT amanda DOT org'
Subject: Re: Tapeless Backup using chg-multi


On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:26:38PM -0500, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
> I am attempting to use AMANDA to write to Disk instead of Tape.
> 
> I have followed the directions in the archives to the best of my
ability...
> but I'm still running into an error.
> 
> I try to use amlabel (/usr/sbin/amlabel -f DailyNAS1 DailyNAS01 slot 1)to
> prepare the directories, but I keep getting an error that says "device
could
> not load slot "current": not a device file."
> 
> Very similar error if I omit the slot 1.
> 
> If I CD into this dir, I can create/delete files/directories so it's not a
> permissions problem (even though the path is a NFS mounted remote NAS.)
> 
> 
> ------------------------
> Contents of amanda.conf:
> uh, having problems getting this one... let me know if you need to see
> something
> 
> 
> ------------------------
> Contents of changer.conf:
> multieject 0
> gravity 0
> needeject 0
> ejectdelay 0
> statefile /etc/amanda/DailyNAS1/changer-status
> firstslot 1
> lastslot 1
> slot 1 file:/test/amanda/slot1 #verified to be existing. this path
contains
> a folder called "data".
> 
> ----------------------------
> contents of changer-status:
> #created by wab 7-16-03
> multieject 0
> gravity 0
> needeject 0
> ejectdelay 0
> firstslot 1
> lastslot 1
> curslot 1
> curloaded 1
> slot 1 file:/test/amanda/slot1
> statefile /var/lib/amanda/DailyNAS1/statefile

I presume you are using chg-multi as your changer type in amanda.conf.

Couple of comments,
You have two statefile definitions, one in changer.conf and another
in changer-status.

If I understand changer-status, your comment "created by wab" should
not have been created or touched in any way by wab.  Mine has much
less info;

        # multi-changer state cache: DO NOT EDIT!
        curslot 4
        curloaded 1

Your changer.conf file seems similar to mine:

        multieject 0
        gravity 0
        needeject 0
        ejectdelay 0
        posteject 0
        statefile /usr/local/etc/amanda/FT/changer-status
        firstslot 1
        lastslot 10
        slot  1 file:/w2/FileDrive/FTape-01
        slot  2 file:/w2/FileDrive/FTape-02
           ...
        slot  9 file:/w2/FileDrive/FTape-09
        slot 10 file:/w2/FileDrive/FTape-10


Can you get reasonable results from ammt and amtape using
your setup?  That should be a first step.

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