On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 05:30:14PM -0800, Stephen Walton wrote:
> I am trying a test amrestore of some files after amanda has run for a
> bit on a RedHat 8.0 system with an HP DDS-3 6-tape changer.  The backups
> are fine, as are the automatic tape changes;  I can get at all of my
> backups manually with dd and tar.  However, amrestore is not happy.
> 
> The details:   I'm using amanda 2.4.3 compiled locally (no RedHat RPM
> for me).  'tapedev "0"' appears in amanda.conf since I'm using a
> changer.

You are using a changer to change the tapes.
You are still using a tape device to read and write the tapes.

> amidxtaped.*.debug reveals that amrecover, when used, exec's "amrestore
> -h -p 0" followed by the usual remaining arguments.  Of course this
> fails, since there is no file or device named "0" which amrestore can
> get at.

Have you tried setting tapedev to your tape device?

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