Hi Dana,

Your setup should works correctly, what's in the changer debug file?

Jean-Louis

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:52:26PM -0800, Dana Bourgeois wrote:
> Is there no one who has an idea of what's wrong here?  I followed the
> examples but used the chg-multi changer rather than the chg-mtx.  Any help?
> Can I use chg-multi with a /dev/null tape device?  I don't really have any
> hardware, its all the file: driver writing to disk.
> 
> 
> Dana Bourgeois
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org 
> > [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Dana Bourgeois
> > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 12:58 AM
> > To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> > Subject: Have 2.4.4p1 RAIT over file: working sort of...
> > 
> > 
> > The good news is that its really easy to set up the RAIT with 
> > three disks. The bad news is that taper complains about not 
> > finding an Amanda tape which is like totally bogus because I 
> > read the label(s) myself.  Can someone who knows the code 
> > help me figure this out?  See the last section below for errors.
> > 
> > I will include the relevant config files and the error 
> > message.  I'd really like to get this working.  
> > 
> > 
> > Dana Bourgeois
> > 
> > =========   Amanda.conf
> > #
> > # amanda.conf - sample Amanda configuration file.  This 
> > started off life as
> > #               the actual config file in use at CS.UMD.EDU.
> > 
> > org "daily"             # your organization name for reports
> > dumpuser "amanda"       # the user to run dumps under
> > inparallel 4            # maximum dumpers that will run in parallel
> > netusage  100000        # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, 
> > in KB per sec
> > dumpcycle 1 weeks       # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
> > runspercycle 5 days    # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
> > tapecycle 7 tapes       # the number of tapes in rotation
> > bumpsize 20 Mb          # minimum savings (threshold) to bump 
> > level 1 -> 2
> > bumpdays 1              # minimum days at each level
> > bumpmult 4              # threshold = bumpsize * bumpmult^(level-1)
> > etimeout 300            # number of seconds per filesystem 
> > for estimates.
> > runtapes 1              # number of tapes to be used in a 
> > single run of
> > amdump
> > tpchanger "chg-rait"    # This one stripes across multiple changers
> > changerfile "/var/lib/amanda/config/rait-changer.conf"
> > tapetype file           # what kind of tape it is (see 
> > tapetypes below)
> > labelstr "^daily[0-9][0-9]*$"   # label constraint regex: all 
> > tapes must
> > match
> > infofile "/var/lib/amanda/daily1/curinfo"       # database filename
> > logdir   "/var/lib/amanda/daily1"               # log directory
> > indexdir "/var/lib/amanda/daily1/index"         # index directory
> > # Dumpers write to the holding disk, taper reads from the 
> > holding disk. holdingdisk hd1 {
> >     comment "main holding disk"
> >     directory "/backup1/holding"        # where the holding disk is
> >     use -10 Gb         # how much space can we use on it
> >                         # a negative value means use all 
> > space except <value>
> >     }
> > holdingdisk hd2 {
> >     comment "main holding disk"
> >     directory "/backup2/holding"        # where the holding disk is
> >     use -10 Gb         # how much space can we use on it
> >                         # a negative value means use all 
> > space except <value>
> >     }
> > 
> > # tapetype
> > define tapetype file {
> >     comment "File on large disk"
> >     length 15 gb
> >     filemark 0 kbytes
> >     speed 10000 kbytes
> > }
> > 
> > define dumptype global {
> >     comment "Global definitions"
> >     index yes
> >     compress client fast        # can be 'none'
> >     program "GNUTAR"
> >     maxdumps 1
> > }
> > 
> > define dumptype tar-compress {
> >     global
> >     comment "Dump of my systems"
> > }
> > 
> > # network interfaces
> > define interface local {
> >     comment "a local disk"
> >     use 10000 kbps
> > }
> > 
> > define interface eth0 {
> >     comment "100 Mbps ethernet"
> >     use 1000 kbps
> > }
> > 
> > =========     rait-changer.conf
> > # chg-rait config file
> > #
> > # This assumes we have rait-striped drives in several
> > # other amanda changer configs.
> > 
> >    nchangers=3
> > 
> > # Changer #1
> >    tpchanger_1="chg-multi"
> >    changerfile_1="/etc/amanda/daily1/changer1.conf"
> > 
> > # Changer #2
> >    tpchanger_2="chg-multi"
> >    changerfile_2="/etc/amanda/daily1/changer2.conf"
> > 
> > # Changer #3
> >    tpchanger_3="chg-multi"
> >    changerfile_3="/etc/amanda/daily1/changer3.conf"
> > 
> > =========     changer1.conf
> > # config file for the chg-multi tape changer program.
> > # Used when tpchanger "chg-multi" is specified in amanda.conf.
> > 
> > multieject 0
> > gravity 0
> > needeject 0
> > ejectdelay 0
> > statefile /etc/amanda/daily1/changer-status1
> > firstslot 1
> > lastslot 15
> > slot  1 file:/backup1/daily01
> > slot  2 file:/backup1/daily02
> > slot  3 file:/backup1/daily03
> > slot  4 file:/backup1/daily04
> > slot  5 file:/backup1/daily05
> > slot  6 file:/backup1/daily06
> > slot  7 file:/backup1/daily07
> > slot  8 file:/backup1/daily08
> > slot  9 file:/backup1/daily09
> > slot 10 file:/backup1/daily10
> > slot 11 file:/backup1/daily11
> > slot 12 file:/backup1/daily12
> > slot 13 file:/backup1/daily13
> > slot 14 file:/backup1/daily14
> > slot 15 file:/backup1/daily15
> > 
> > ===========  changer2 and 3 conf files
> > The same as changer1.conf except the status file is 
> > changer-status2 and changer-status3 respectively AND the 
> > tapes for changer 2 are on /backup2 while the tapes for 
> > changer 3 are on /backup3.
> > 
> > ===========     OK, Errors
> > 1. amlabel labels the tapes but then doesn't rewind them.  I 
> > wrote a little script to do that for me since all that is 
> > required is to muck with the info file.  Once I labelled and 
> > rewound the tapes, amtape and amlabel acted normally.  For 
> > example, during the amdump taper reported: 
> > 
> > taper: slot 4: date X        label daily04 (exact label match)
> > 
> > 2. when I ran amdump, the taper complained and wouldn't 
> > write.  Here's the error line:
> > 
> > driver: result time 484.574 from taper: TAPE-ERROR [not an 
> > amanda tape]
> > 
> > 3. Ahh...OK.  Found something!!  I thought it was just the 
> > initial labelling of a new tape that was not rewinding but 
> > amcheck and amlable both don't rewind, even when they say 
> > they will.  If I run amlabel after my rewinding program, it 
> > acts normally but if I run it a second time the info file 
> > reports position 2 and amlabel reports it can't find the 
> > label and errors. This might be the problem with amdump but 
> > I'm too burned out to work on this anymore.
> >