Andreas Kuntzagk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to do a (test) recovery using our SL24 changer.
> I set amrecover_changer and use setdevice but still get an error
> message when trying to extract files.
> Could the reason be that I did the dumps before setting
> amrecover_changer ?
no.

Look for message in the amidxtaped.*.debug file on the tape server.

Jean-Louis
>
> Here is my amanda.conf:
> ==========================
> logdir "/etc/opt/amanda/daily/log" # log directory
> infofile "/etc/opt/amanda/daily/curinfo" # database filename
> indexdir "/etc/opt/amanda/daily/index" # index directory
> tapelist "/etc/opt/amanda/daily/tapelist" # list of used tapes
>
> usetimestamps 1
> tapecycle 18
> runtapes 3
> #send-amreport-on never
>
> amrecover_changer "changer"
>
> define tapetype HP-LTO4 {
> comment "LTO4 Tapes, values produced by amtapetype, Compression Off"
> length 772096 mbytes
> filemark 0 kbytes
> speed 100612 kps
> }
>
> tapetype "HP-LTO4"
>
> tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx"
> changerdev "/dev/scsi/changer/c8t500110A00094F7C0d0"
> tapedev "tape:/dev/rmt/0"
> changerfile "/etc/opt/amanda/daily/changer.conf"
>
> holdingdisk zfs {
> directory "/data/backup/daily"
> }
>
> define dumptype global {
> record yes
> index yes
> auth "bsdtcp"
> program "GNUTAR"
> }
> ========================
>
> and here the amrecover session:
>
> ========================
> amrecover> setdevice -h fileserver07 changer
> Using tape "changer" from server fileserver07.
> amrecover> extract
> Extract list empty - No files to extract!
> amrecover> add proteome
> Added dir /proteome/ at date 2009-06-25-13-49-29
> Added dir /proteome/ at date 2009-06-30-10-01-43
> Added dir /proteome/ at date 2009-07-02-10-48-40
> Added dir /proteome/ at date 2009-07-03-10-51-17
> amrecover> extract
>
> Extracting files using tape drive changer on host fileserver07.
> The following tapes are needed: test019
> test021
> test004
> test005
>
> Restoring files into directory /data/test
> Continue [?/Y/n]?
>
> Extracting files using tape drive changer on host fileserver07.
> Load tape test019 now
> Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]?
> Volume labeled 'test019' not found.
> Load tape test019 now
> Continue [?/Y/n/d]?
>
> ======================
>
> regards, Andreas