On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 04:42:08PM -0500, Ben Simpson wrote:
> I am running amanda on a Sony tape changer.
> I am using chg-zd-mtx to interface with the changer using MTX
> When I run amrestore it fails to load the tape it needs.

amrestore doesn't use the changer, it will never use it because
it know nothing about the amanda configuration.

amrecover doesn't use the changer either, but it will use it
in the next amanda release (I'm working on that).

Jean-Louis

> I have to open another session and tell it to load the right tape.
> 
> So my question is (after looking at some of the code) does the MTX 
> changer only changes the tapes
> to the next tape or previous tape and not to the tape that it needs?
> 
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