First time Changer user
2003-02-05 14:01:30
We have had a tape changer running with amanda for a while but it was just
being used
as the a single drive and the data is starting to exceed the size of the
tape.(DLT40 -
80G compressed)
I'm starting to look into utilizing the functionality of the changer. I've
looked at the docs
and have the impression that all I have to do is specify the chg-scsi in the
amanda.conf
and set-up the chg-scsi.conf. Here are examples of the part of amanda.conf and
chg-scsi.conf.
amanda.conf:
tpchanger "chg-scsi" # the tape-changer glue script
tapedev "0" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
changerfile "/opt/amanda/etc/amanda/homes/chg-scsi.conf"
chg-scsi.conf:
number_configs 1
eject 0
sleep 60
cleanmax 10
changerdev /dev/rsst4
#
# Next comes the data for drive 0
#
config 0
drivenum 0
dev /dev/rmt/0bn
startuse 0
enduse 4
statfile /opt/amanda/etc/amanda/homes/tape0-slot
cleancart 5
cleanfile /opt/amanda/etc/amanda/homes/tape0-clean
agecount /opt/amanda/etc/amanda/homes/totaltimef
tapestatus /opt/amanda/etc/amanda/homes/tape0-status
I think I understand the contents of this file but I don't know what to put for
the
changerdev file. Up till now I've been using /dev/rmt/0 for backing up to a
single tape so
how do I find what this value should be for my changer.(/dev/rsst4 does not
exist)
Also when I've got the changer working how do the tape numbers work? If a
night's
backup tape starts on homes02 and spreads 2 tapes will amanda understand it's
spread over homes02 and homes03? If so how does this affect restores?
David Flood
Systems Administrator
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