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I: HP MSL5030 library, HP LTO drive and Ultrium LTO 1 tapes, Linux

2005-03-03 04:33:15
Subject: I: HP MSL5030 library, HP LTO drive and Ultrium LTO 1 tapes, Linux
From: "Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn AT immo DOT ru>
To: Mailing List Amanda User <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:19:26 +0300
Success story:


Ultrium LTO 1 tapetype (100G, amtapetype works for 4 hours):

define tapetype Ultrium1 {
    comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression on)"
    length 101376 mbytes
    filemark 0 kbytes
    speed 13867 kps
}


Changer settings:

amanda.conf:

tpchanger "chg-scsi"    # the tape-changer glue script
tapedev "0"     # the no-rewind tape device to be used
changerfile "/etc/amanda/.../changer.conf"
changerdev "/dev/sg3"


changer.conf:

number_configs   1
emubarcode       1
havebarcode      0
debuglevel       0:0
eject            1
sleep            30

# Found in dmesg
changerdev   /dev/sg3

config             0
cleancart        20
drivenum           0
# I'm using Linux
dev              /dev/nst0
# scsitapedev doesn't work, sg4 is NOT attached to any device
# according to dmesg
#scsitapedev   /dev/sg4
# I have 20 tapes
startuse          0
enduse            19

statfile /var/.../tape0-slot #
cleanfile /var/.../tape0-clean #
usagecount /var/.../tape0-totaltime #
tapestatus /var/.../tape0-tapestatus #
labelfile /var/.../labelfile #


I hope someone find this useful...

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Regards, Alexey I. Froloff
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