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Re: amanda in domU
2007-10-10 13:31:44
James Wilson wrote:
I was wondering if amanda could run in a xen instance. And if so does
the dom0 automatically pass the tape scsi adapter to the xen instance?
Also if I move amanda to this xen instance will it be able to open my
old tapes? Any help is appreciated.
If you can handle setting up the xen domU in your xen dom0 and get the
tape device to connect from there using basic tape utilities, then there
should be no problem with Amanda. Make sure the entire Amanda home
directory is moved over, including the configuration directory with the
indexes and tapelist and everything else.
So, there are really two separate issues here.
First is getting the xen domU to behave like a normally installed system
with access to the devices that you need to use. Use typical low level
utilities like mt to confirm the setup. If you have trouble with that,
people here will certainly try to help, but you may find more focused
help somewhere that specializes in Xen.
The other issue is Amanda. Once you have the first issue resolved, this
becomes more straightforward. Specific issues you have can be addressed
as they come up. Amanda cares about the tape labels, and checks those
against its configuration and its records of tape usage. Should work.
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