If I had Linux as a backup server I'd rather use chg-scsi.
It gives you much more flexibility than other scripts.
Most important feature that is useful when you have large number of
slots,
you can split the changer into few independant tape pools and use them
in
different configurations.
Also might check if barcode feature for your changer is supporting by
chg-scsi.
It will give you very fast tape load.
To make it work you should upgrade to 2.4.2, because as far as I
remember
chg-scsi does not work in 2.4.1p1.
Jeff Silverman wrote:
>
> I have two FastStor 22 tape changers from ADIC (http://www.adic.com)
> with the DLT 8000 tape drive and I love 'em. Each one is hung off of a
> dual processor PC running RH Linux 6.2 and they both have Amanda 2.4.1p1
> software. However, the tape changer works reliably on one machine but
> unreliably on the other machine. The software is bit-for-bit identical
> and the machines don't have any problems if I run the mtx command
> manually - I was in despair.
>
> So I traced the chg-zd-mtx script and discovered that there was a
> variable, cleancount, that was not getting initialized (as opposed to
> being initialized to 0). The reason why is because I copied over the
> software files but not the state files,
> /usr/local/etc/amanda/changer-*. Somehow, an empty changer-clean file
> was created with 0 length, which doesn't work at all. So I poked a
> value into it, and now it appears to be working. I am still doing some
> more testing (the amtape CONFIGURATION show command is a very good test)
> but I have every reason for optimism.
>
> Is this a bug? I'm not sure. If there is a primitive in the Bourne
> shell to see if an operand is a valid integer, then use, I think it is;l
> otherwise I think that the cost of testing outwieghs the cost of
> failure. Instead, we should note in the documentation that if the
> changer throws syntax errors, then check for bad changer-* files.
>
> Several of you have been most helpful and patient with me - thank you.
>
> Jeff
>
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