Hi all. If you think you might be able to help me get Amanda working with a Sun server and tapechanger, please read on and let me know what you think.
I inhereted a project to configure Amanda to back up a Sun E6500 with an attached StorEdge 30-slot changer, which includes two Quantum DLT drives. Until last Thursday, I had very little experience with Amanda, so bear with me if I missed someting obvious. Using the archives for this group, I have been unable to get around a couple of roadblocks. I can use mtx successfully to work with the drive: gorge# mtx -f /dev/changer inquiry Product Type: Medium Changer Vendor ID: 'ATL ' Product ID: 'P1000 6220070' Revision: '2.01' Attached Changer: No (mtx status lists the two drives and thirty slots, with labels and status of tapes) ... but I can not get the amcheck or amtape programs to work correctly: gorge# amcheck -s Test Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- Holding disk /public/amanda: 16282266 KB disk space available, that's plenty amcheck-server: could not get changer info: badly formed result from changer: "/dev/rmt/1" (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.3b2) gorge# amtape Test current amtape: could not get changer info: badly formed result from changer: "/dev/rmt/1" Yet, mt can communicate with the drives ... gorge# mt -f /dev/rmt/1 status Quantum DLT7000 tape drive: sense key(0x0)= No Additional Sense residual= 0 retries= 0 file no= 0 block no= 0 (same result for /dev/rmt/2) ... and the chg-zd-mtx script seems to work ... gorge# ./chg-zd-mtx -info 2 30 1 1 Do you have any ideas as to why I am getting the "badly formed" errors above? I feel like I'm close to getting this system up and running, but I keep banging my head on different issues, and this is the latest one. I have included relevant portions of the configs below. Thanks very much in advance, Eric -------- amanda.conf: runtapes 1 tpchanger "/usr/cbel/opt/amanda-2.4.3b2/etc/amanda/Test/chg-zd-mtx" tapedev "/dev/rmt/1" changerfile "/usr/cbel/opt/amanda-2.4.3b2/etc/amanda/Test/changer" changerdev "/dev/changer" -------- changer: # this is the changer file # multieject 0 gravity 0 needeject 1 ejectdelay 30 statefile changer-status firstslot 1 lastslot 30 slot 1 /dev/rmt/1 slot 2 /dev/rmt/2
