On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:40:54AM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote:
> I am running "amrecover daily". The daily amanda.conf has the following:
> 
> tapedev "/dev/rmt/1bn"  # the no-rewind tape device to be used
> changerdev "/dev/changer/1"
> 

This is not the answer to your problem, but generally amanda
expects the tape device to use the at&t style tape handling
rather than the bsd style.  You are specifying to use the
bsd style by using the "b" versions of the device names.

> When I go to extract a file I get the following tape device. Should not
> amrecover look at the "daily" amanda.conf file to get the tape device?
> 
>       Extracting files using tape drive /dev/rmt/0bn on host zorn.
>       The following tapes are needed: D00010
> 
> I can set it with settape so not a problem, just wondering.

Some changer scripts specify the tape dev.  Might you have it
defined there also and the amanda.conf setting is being superceded?


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