>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/10/02 07:24PM >>>
>>The current problem is that I'm getting the WARNING: tapedev is /dev/null,
>>dumps will be thrown away
>>but I have no tapedev "/dev/null" in my amanda.conf file.
>Frank is right. You need to set tapedev to "/dev/nst0".
It also works with tapedev "/dev/st0" - I tried this because my Hardware Browser
(RedHat)
reports: Tape Drives: HP C1553A, Device: /dev/st
>>I'm not sure about my changer config file ...
>It would help if you posted it.
Here goes:
###########################################
number_configs 1
eject 0
sleep 90
cleanmax 100
changerdev /dev/sga
config 0
drivenum 0
dev /dev/st
scsitapedev /dev/st0 #or /dev/nst0 ?
startuse 1
enduse 5
statfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/tape0-slot
cleancart 6
cleanfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/tape0-clean
usagecount /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/totaltime
tapestatus /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/tapestatus
################################################
>>chg-scsi-linux.conf up just because the tapedrive is connected to the scsi
>>card and my platform is Linux), replaced its dev entries (/dev/nst0,
>>/dev/sg1) with /dev/sga and changed the values of startuse, enduse and
>>cleancart.
>Huh? Did you look at the comments in the script? There aren't any
>variables named startuse, enduse or cleancart.
Well, I thought these variables are neccesary somewhere else because they're
existent in the chg-scssi-linux.conf example file:
################################################
number_configs 1
eject 0 # Tapedrives need an eject command
sleep 90 # Seconds to wait until the tape gets ready
cleanmax 100 # How many times could a cleaning tape get used
changerdev /dev/sg2
#
# Next comes the data for drive 0
#
config 0
drivenum 0
dev /dev/nst0
scsitapedev /dev/sg1
startuse 0 # The slots associated with the drive 0
enduse 4 #
statfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/tape0-slot # The file where the
actual slot is stored
cleancart 5 # the slot where the cleaningcartridge for drive 0 is located
cleanfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/tape0-clean # The file where the
cleanings are recorded
usagecount /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/totaltime
tapestatus /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/tapestatus # here will some status
infos be stored
#labelfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/labelfile # Use this if you have an
barcode reader
#################################################
>John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you for your help. Thanks to you, thanks to the list I'm getting a better
understanding of amanda.
Greg
