Amanda-Users

Re: device prefixes for md disks in Solaris?

2003-01-28 10:15:33
Subject: Re: device prefixes for md disks in Solaris?
From: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
To: Eric Sproul <esproul AT ntelos DOT net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:35:35 -0500 (EST)
I usually backup stuff in Amanda by using the name of the
mount point rather than the device name.

> Hi all,
> After searching the archives, I can't seem to find an answer to a
> nagging little problem-- one of my clients is a Solaris 8 machine
> running software RAID, so its devices begin with "/dev/md/dsk...". 
> However, AMANDA does not have this as one of her defined prefixes, so
> I'm forced to put the entire device name in my disklist, e.g.
> "/dev/md/dsk/d14" instead of just "d14" which would be nice and neat.
> 
> I don't see a configure option where you can specify the device prefix. 
> >From the debug output, I know the client at least has the ordinary
> "/dev/dsk" prefix.  How do I add/change the device prefix in the
> client?  I'm currently running 2.4.2p2 on the client, but I can upgrade
> if there is a way in the latest version.
> 
> As I said, this is really just a nuisance.  The client is being backed
> up just fine.  I just want my disklist to look nice!  ;-P
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
>