Amanda-Users

Re: Default restore device issues

2006-05-02 20:41:44
Subject: Re: Default restore device issues
From: stan <stanb AT panix DOT com>
To: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 19:36:25 -0400
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:19:52PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> On 2006-05-02 14:12, stan wrote:
> >I'm trying to get amrecover to default to my changer.
> >
> >I've added the following to my script that runs configure:
> >
> >--with-tape-device=chg-multi \
> >--with-changer-device=chg-multi \
> >
> >made distclean, id a make, and a make install. I'm working on the server
> >for the moment, so I rebooted it just to make certain that I had the
> >correct daemons running.
> >
> >But, still....
> >
> >
> >amrecover> extract
> >
> >Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host 
> >amanda.meadwestvaco.com.
> >                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >The following tapes are needed: DailyDump21
> >
> >This is runnig amrecover withut any options. On 2.5.0 PL1 if it atters.
> >
> >Am I doing something wrong here?
> 
> 
> Did you try the simple and documented parameter in amanda.conf:
> 
>   amrecover_changer  "changer"
> 
> No need at all to recompile and mess things up.
> 
Works perfectly. As a matter of fact this was defined in the master
amanda.conf file, but to the tape device. Thus that was causing
my problems.

Thnaks, again.

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