Joe Wrote:
> When I run amrecover I have to issue the "settape" command
> to tell it what device I have. The tape device is properly
> specified in the configuration and the back up works fine.
> This is a regular tape drive not a changer. Why does amrecover
> require the settape command?

Joe... my 2.6 installation pulls the tapedev from the amanda-client.conf from 
on whatever host I am running amrecover.

Hope that helps.

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