On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:18:34AM -0700, anthonyh wrote:
> 
> Hi Guys,settape x:/backup/amanda/dumps/tape01 
> 
> Thank You for replying this mail. Well actually i'm a bit confused with the
> way the amanda recovers the data.
> 
> Is it true that the host in the command "settape
> <host>:file:/backup/amanda/dumps/tape01" refers to the amanda tape server? 
> 
> Newbie here guys.

Yes -- that's correct.  If you're on the tape server itself, you should
use e.g.,

  localhost:file:/backup/amanda/dumps/tape01

Dustin

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        Dustin J. Mitchell
        Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
        http://www.zmanda.com/