A couple things I see, commented below:
On Fri, 09 Feb 2001, Joseph Del Corso wrote:
>
> I should preface what I'm about to say with: I searched through a decent
> amount of the archive before giving up. I ran amcheck with the following
> results:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -----------------------------
> /opt/tmp: 34743152 KB disk space available, that's plenty.
> ERROR: /dev/sg4: Permission denied
> (expecting a new tape)
Make sure that the amanda user is in the group that has permission to this
device. On mine, the tape dev looks like this:
bash-2.03$ ls -l /dev/nst0
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 128 May 5 1998 /dev/nst0
And /etc/group has:
disk:x:6:root,amanda
Also, but I'm not 100% sure on this, scsi tape devices in linux are
listed as /dev/st#, and as /dev/nst# for the non-rewinding. So your 2
drives 'should' be /dev/nst0 and /dev/nst1.
>
> The amanda.conf file that *I BELIEVE* is being used has the following
> attributes set:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of
> amdump
> #tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx" # the tape-changer glue script
> tapedev "/dev/sg4" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
See above guess about /dev/nst0 being the 1st no-rewind device.
> #rawtapedev "/dev/sg5 # the raw device to be used (ftape only)
> #changerfile "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/changer"
> #changerfile "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/changer-status"
> #changerfile "/etc/amanda/changer.conf"
> changerdev "/dev/sg3"
The reason it didn't work as a single drive was the changerdev line.
If you comment that out, or use tpchanger "chg-manual", it should go.
> I guess I'm having trouble understanding the following:
> I'm using an ATL 7100 series tape backup system with a robotic
> arm and two tape drives on scsi id 1, where the robotic arm I can
> control via mtx (mtx -f /dev/sg3 etc etc etc)
>
> and the tape drives are /dev/sg4 and sg5...
>
> I initially tried to use the tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx" but would get the
> following results from amcheck DailySet1
> (obviously the line tpchanger, see above, would be uncommented when I
> tried this)
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> [operator@lycan:/etc/amanda/DailySet1]# amcheck DailySet1
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -----------------------------
> /opt/tmp: 34743152 KB disk space available, that's plenty.
> amcheck-server: could not get changer
> info: /usr/adm/amanda/changer-status-clean: No such file or directory
In amanda.conf, if you set the 'changerfile "/somedir/something"'
all the files used in chg-zd-mtx will be set to things like:
/somedir/something-status-clean
/somedir/something-access
Changerfile gives the script something to append it's file names to.
Since you have all 3 examples commented out in your amanda.conf, I
assume it just went to some default value.
I just went through the 'mini-nightmare' trying to figure out the same
problem about a month ago, so I understand. ;)
After this email, I am submitting a modified chg-zd-mtx script that has
support for barcodes (currently, only chg-scsi has that) and can also
support >9 tape slots. It may come in handy for you.
--
Jason Hollinden
SMG Systems Admin
