On Wednesday 16 July 2003 04:01, Christoph Scheeder wrote:
>Hi,
>1.) i hope you only have one of the lines (A) and (B) in your
>amanda.conf at the same time, don't you?
>2.) line (A) is the correct one for chg-scsi
>3.) remove each and every comment from your chg-scsi.conf file, they
>sometimes confuse chg-scsi.
>hope it helps....
>Christoph
Item 3.) above is something I've never had to do here. If there ever
was a problem, its long since scrolled out of my wet ram history.
Currently running release 2.4.4p1-20030715.
>Bruntel, Mitchell L, SOLCM wrote:
>>thanks Jay, makes great sense.
>>so the tpchanger envirornment is attemping to call the C program in
>> the libexec directory
>>
>>NOW my only problem IS: tpchanger should call the C program
>> (chg-scsi) in my case... where does the CONFIG (chg-scsi.conf) get
>> called from, or it doesnt need to be?
>>
>>so this error(s)
>>Amanda Tape Server Host Check
>>-----------------------------
>>(1)amcheck-server: could not get changer info: could not read
>> result from "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailyBackup/chg-scsi.conf"
>>
>>or now:
>>(2)amcheck-server: could not get changer info: check your config
>> and use a config file for chg-scsi ..amanda.conf snippet:
>>..snip..
>>notes: IF THIS line (A) is commented/# out, I get errror 1
>>(otherwise I get error B
>>(A) tpchanger "chg-scsi"
>># the tape-changer glue script
>>(B) tpchanger "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailyBackup/chg-scsi.conf"
>>tapedev "/dev/rmt/0n" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
>>changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailyBackup/chg-scsi.conf"
>>changerdev "/dev/scsi/changer/c1t0d0"
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>
From: Jay Lessert [mailto:jayl AT accelerant DOT net]
>
>>Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:52 PM
>>To: Bruntel, Mitchell L, SOLCM
>>Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
>>Subject: Re: Pre-emptive sanity check Question
>>
>>On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:58:20PM -0500, Bruntel, Mitchell L, SOLCM
wrote:
>>>OK. Jay makes sense here:
>>>1) Jay says: I have choices: chg-scsi or chg-zd-mtx.
>>>but I have a third config file in the distribution called
>>> chg-scsi-solaris.conf
>>
>>The files: example/chg-scsi-{hpux,linux,solaris}.conf are just
>> example chg-scsi config files with OS-specific "typical" device
>> names inserted; they do not represent different tpchanger
>> executables. You'll not find libexec/chg-scsi-solaris, right?
>>
>>>The X80 has 80 slots for tapes. (elements) Tape Drive 1 is
>>> element 451, 2 is 452, 3 is 453,
>>
>>I'm sure there is an excellent and highly amusing reason for that.
>> :-)
>>
>>and the cleaning cartridge lives in slot 0
>>
>>>and element 401-405 are the only way to put tapes in/out of unit!
>>
>>You're apparently intended to initially populate the library
>> through the little five-tape import/export hole, and then
>> seldom/never touch the tapes again. Unless you were planning on
>> rotating tapes off-site, that's actually a perfectly good way to
>> go, I guess.
>>
>>Amanda won't do anything with the import/export slots, you'll deal
>> with that outside amanda somewhere.
>>
>>With mtx, you would fill the import/export slots, then have a
>> script do something like:
>>
>> mtx transfer 401 1
>> mtx transfer 402 2
>> mtx transfer 403 3
>> mtx transfer 404 4
>> mtx transfer 405 5
>>
>>>so it should be 'startuse 1', 'enduse 80'
>>
>>If you're planning on using that many tapes, yes. Only specify as
>> many slots as you're actually intending to use in this amanda
>> config.
>>
>>>Now can someone explain the following:
>>>a) what is the relationship of mtx to chg-scsi
>>
>>None.
>>
>>chg-scsi: is a C program that controls a SCSI tape library and
>> directly implements the amanda changer interface described in
>> docs/TAPE.CHANGERS. Part of the amanda source distribution.
>>
>>mtx: A C program that controls a SCSI tape library and does NOT
>> directly implement the amanda changer interface. It is very
>> useful to use by hand, however ('mtx load 3 452' would load the
>> tape in slot 3 to tape drive 452), and a wrapper script can
>> convert it to amanda. Source from http://mtx.badtux.net/.
>>
>> There is another, older mtx, which I have never seen in the
>> wild.
>>
>>chg-zd-mtx: A sh script wrapper around mtx which converts it to the
>> amanda changer interface.
>>
>>>b) what is the relationship of chg-scsi.conf and the files in the
>>> /usr/local/libexec directory (/usr/local/libexec/chg-scsi)
>>
>>libexec/chg-scsi is a C program that expects to find a
>> configuration file somewhere. chg-scsi.conf might be that file.
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