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Re: Conf files for tape changer scripts (or bins)
2005-08-10 14:00:26
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 08 August 2005 22:41, Marcus wrote:
I've been messing around with chg-mtx and chg-scsi and
[..snip...]
If you installed from the tarball (highly recommended) then there
should be samples of these files in the src tree 'example' directory.
There are 25 files in there from my latest build of 2.4.5-20050711
but unforch I do not see a chg-mtx.conf among them. However in the
'docs' directory, see 'tapechangers.txt' which might be helpfull as
What the docs don't make clear is the fact that *only* chg-scsi complex
variants use a changer.conf. chg-chio and chg-mtx for example, are
relatively simplistic perl or bourne shell wrapper scripts, that do not.
Also, chg-mtx requires a "tapefile" config and chg-chio does not (which is
obvious from looking through the source code).
On the same accord, chg-chio and chg-mtx also lack support for hardware /
platform independant barcode reader support.
Amanda really needs to cache the changer's "status" / barcode meta-data in
a psuedo database somewhere to prevent the need to cycle the entire
changer.
~BAS
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