Author: kfhemness AT ucdavis DOT edu (Kathryn Hemness)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:36:56 -0800 (PST)
Greetings, I've been fighting with sharing tapedrives with a Linux media server for about a month now and I'd really appreciate some help. My problem lies not with the sharing but with the linux devi
Author: pcd AT xinupro DOT com (Peter DrakeUnderkoffler)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:13:32 -0500
You are running into persistent binding issues, or lack there of. This is accomplished by a couple different methods depending on you Linux version and HBA model. NetBackup has a solution built in to
Author: kfhemness AT ucdavis DOT edu (Kathryn Hemness)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:50:23 -0800 (PST)
Thanks, Peter. I'm running NB51MP3A. I'll try the vm.conf entry. --kathy == Kathryn Hemness kfhemness AT ucdavis DOT edu System Administrator phone: 530.752.6547 Campus Data Center & Client Services
Author: austin.murphy AT gmail DOT com (Austin Murphy)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:59:41 -0500
I have a very similar config and the problem seems to lie in the linux command "make_scsi_dev" which creates and/or deletes the device links that netbackup uses. If a drive is in use, it will delete
Author: kfhemness AT ucdavis DOT edu (Kathryn Hemness)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:05:05 -0800 (PST)
Thanks Austin, I knew that the make_scsi_dev command created the links; it didn't occur to me that it was the culprit that destroyed them. I'll give the disabling the execute bit a try. --kathy == Ka
Author: kfhemness AT ucdavis DOT edu (Kathryn Hemness)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:52:12 -0800 (PST)
Thanks for this great tip, Austin. Rather than disabling the execution bit, I commented out the execution of the make_scsi_dev from the init.d/netbackup script. And this modification worked. I double