Author: "Woodman, Joel" <woodman AT chuma1.cas.usf DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:44:07 -0400
Hello Amanda folks, I'm a shiny new Amanda user, with a Dell PowerEdge 6450 server and a PowerVault 120T tape pod. The server's running RedHat Linux 9 and Amanda 2.4.4p1, with chg-zd-mtx managing the
I'm a shiny new Amanda user, with a Dell PowerEdge 6450 server and a PowerVault 120T tape pod. The server's running RedHat Linux 9 and Amanda 2.4.4p1, with chg-zd-mtx managing the tape changer. mtx i
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is most likely your problem. Since you were able to run mtx from the command line, either the path specifies for it in chg-zd-mtx is incorrect, or it is called without a p
Easy. /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx is just a shell script that sets $PATH. chg-zd-mtx is telling you that mtx is not in that path. For a quick fix, just copy your mtx binary to libexec. mtx is searched
Oops, followup to my own posting, sigh. Above is true but irrelevant. The mtx called from chg-zd-mtx is hardwired at configure time: % egrep '^MTX' /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx MTX=/usr/local/bin/mt
Author: "Woodman, Joel" <woodman AT chuma1.cas.usf DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:07:50 -0400
Folks, Many thanks for the swift responses. It does look like it was a path issue, though even running from root the error was the same. I've removed mtx and re-installed from RPM and that cleared th
Yup. Normal for chg-zd-mtx, that is, yes. It does an 'mtx status' and keeps a list of occupied slots within the firstslot->lastslot range. No sense mucking about with empty slots. Yes. In general, al
Author: "Woodman, Joel" <woodman AT chuma1.cas.usf DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 18:56:13 -0400
Jay, Thanks for the reply. It's unusual behavior for a query that's checking the slots for tapes and tape labels, but I've gotten the impression Amanda is fairly paranoid about explicit instructions.
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 22:40:49 -0400
Thats extremely simple, just let amanda do her thing. One of amanda's targets is to use the same amount of tape for every run. That means that she will do a level 0 on an individual DLE within the ti