Re: working with multiple tape drives
2002-09-09 15:04:35
On Monday 09 September 2002 13:42, Quinn, Richard C. - Collinsville
IT wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'll rephrase the original question because it might've been a
> little bit vague.
>
>I am running amanda 2.4.3b2.
>
>I am running this on a Sparc E450 running solaris 6.
>
>My jukebox/tape changer is a StoragTEK 9730.
>
>It has 2 Quantum DLT drives and 30 slots.
>
>I've been trying to make chg-scsi work with BOTH tape drives.
>That didn't work, so I thought maybe I could get by with making
> chg-scsi work with 2 different config files.
>One config file for each drive.
>That didn't work either.
>So I thought I'd just concentrate on trying to make chg-scsi work
> on one drive at a time.
>
>I can make my chg-scsi command work just fine when using the first
>Quantum DLT drive (/dev/rmt/2).
>
>So I then tried to make chg-scsi work with only the OTHER drive
>(/dev/rmt/3).
>
>That didn't work.
>
>So it seems that my problem is that I cannot make chg-scsi work
> with the second tape drive(/dev/rmt/3).
>
>
>Here is a snippet from amanda.conf:
>(NOTE, I have switched tapedev from '0' to /dev/rmt/3n(the
> commented entry)).
>
>===================================================
>tpchanger "chg-scsi" #
>changerfile "/usr/local/amanda/etc/amanda/DailySet1/chg-scsi.conf"
>changerdev "/dev/rsst0"
>tapedev "0" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
>#tapedev "/dev/rmt/3n" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
>===================================================
>
>
>And here is chg-scsi.conf:
>===================================================
This s/b 2
>number_configs 1
>eject 1
>sleep 60
>cleanmax 10
>changerdev /dev/rsst0
>#
>Drive 0
>#
below starts the first config
>config 0
>drivenum 0
>dev /dev/rmt/3n
>startuse 0
>enduse 29
>statfile /var/adm/amanda/DailySet1/tape1-slot
>cleancart 25
>cleanfile /var/adm/amanda/DailySet1/tape1-clean
>usagecount /var/adm/amanda/DailySet1/totaltime-tape1
>tapestatus /var/adm/amanda/DailySet1/tape1-status
>
>
Then add your second config below here
config 1
etc,etc
And I'm pretty sure that 'tapedev' above actually refers the the
config number in the chg-scsi.conf file.
--
Cheers, Gene
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