Hi Nick.
I'm a little rusty on this as I haven't done it for a year or so.
Your storage node must see the tape devices first. You are right in that
you put the linux tape device into jbconfig e.g. linux:/path/to/drive
Secondly, Only one of the servers connected to the jukebox should see the
autochanger. If your linux server is the host to control the robot, then
you allow it to see the robot. If your solaris server is the one to control
the autochanger, then only it should see the autochanger.
All hosts that are going to use the tape drives need to be able to see them
at an OS level first. Once you can see the tape drives, use the inquire
command to verify the tape drive serial numbers for each host against each
other i.e. tape1=solaris /dev/rmt/1cbn = linux:/dev/rmt/3cbn
On 4/10/06, Nick Tan <nick AT wehi.edu DOT au> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We currently have a 7.1 server running on Solaris 8. It has two
> jukeboxes - a Quantum M1500 with 2 x SDLT220 drives, SCSI connected, and
> an Overland NEO2000 with 2 x SDLT600 drives, Fibre connected.
>
> We have 2 DDS licenses and a Dedicated storage node license. What I
> want to do is configure a linux server to be a dedicated storage node
> and back itself up to the SDLT600 drives via DDS.
>
> I plan to use DDS on the Fibre tape drives to the Linux server so the
> server can back itself up directly over fibre to the tape drives.
>
> From my reading of the administration guide, I need to reconfigure my
> NEO2000 jukebox to allow for drive sharing. To do this I run jbconfig
> on the solaris server and enter multiple paths to the drives. Is this
> correct?
>
> If so, I'm not 100% sure about what I put for the paths. At the moment,
> the paths I have on Solaris are /dev/rmt/3cbn and /dev/rmt/4cbn - so I'm
> assuming I need to put those in again for Solaris to see the drives.
> But I'm not sure what path I need to put for the linux server to see
> them. I'm guessing its something like linux:/path/to/drive, but the
> problem is that the linux server only sees the autochanger device
> (/dev/sg3), but not the SDLT600 drives.
>
> If anyone can give me any advice it'd be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick
>
>
> --
> Nick Tan
> Unix Systems Manager
> The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
> nick AT wehi.edu DOT au
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