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Re: How can I specify the correct "tape device" to amrecover for vtpaes?

2006-04-30 12:28:54
Subject: Re: How can I specify the correct "tape device" to amrecover for vtpaes?
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda users list <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:23:46 -0400
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:20:45AM -0400, stan wrote:
> I'm setting up a system that uses a RAIT of vtapes, and a real tape
> drive. I'm attempting to get 3 configs, one the "normal" on that
> is used for backups, and one for tape only, and another for disk only.
> 
> At present when I try to use amrecover on the disk only config, it fails
> I've determined that is because it's trying to use the physical tape
> device /dev/nst0 (which is the compiled in default). How can
> I properly invoke amrecover to use the vtapes? I'm using chg-multi,
> and I'm fairly certain that the changer config file for the disk only
> config is correct, but that does not seem to be enough.

Show it please, including where it is, whether it is a link, etc..

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