Hello, I have changed my hardware setup. Now I have a Overland PowerLoader with 2 HP Ultrium LTO2 drives. They are /dev/nst0 (/dev/sg1) and /dev/nst1 (/dev/sg2). The PowerLoader has a tape changer (/dev/sg3).
The problem is that if I do a amcheck Mybackup I get this error message: Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- Holding disk /mnt/Holding_Disk: 877071032 KB disk space available, that's plenty amcheck-server: could not get changer info: cannot determine first slot Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- Client check: 1 host checked in 0.092 seconds, 0 problems found How to configure amanda to use the 2 LTO drives for backup? Which device to use in the amanda.conf or in the CHANGER file? With one LTO drive everything was working fine with the mtx device driver. I need a hint to get the "could not get changer info: cannot determine first slot" error message solved. Here my amanda.conf: # a filesystem is due for a full backup once every <dumpcycle> days dumpcycle 0 # the number of days in the normal dump cycle #runspercycle 10 # Standard: runspercycle = dumpcycle tapecycle 100 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation until it is reused bumpsize 20 MB # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1 -> 2 bumpdays 1 # minimum days at each level bumpmult 4 # threshold = bumpsize * (level-1)**bumpmult ctimeout 60 # amcheck timeout in secs per host etimeout 300 # amdump planner timeout in secs per filesystem runtapes 16 # Tapechange if one tape is not enough inparallel 6 # maximum dumpers that will run in parallel maxdumps 3 # Default: 1. The maximum number of backups from a single host that AMANDA will attempt to run in parallel. taperalgo largestfit # Default: first. The algorithm used to choose which dump image that is available on the holdingdisk to send to the taper. dumporder "TtttttttttttttT" # 15 dumps - as many T's as there are dumpers # Config for OVERLAND PowerLoader Tape Autoloader tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx" # the tape-changer glue script, see TAPE.CHANGERS changerdev "/dev/sg2" # tape-changer device changerfile "/etc/amanda/DailyFull/CHANGER" And here my CHANGER file: # Drive) slot number. Default to 0 driveslot=0 # First storeage slot (element) -- required firstslot=1 # Last storeage slot (element) -- required lastslot=16 # If a barcode reader is present havereader=1 # Activate autocleaning autoclean=0 Best regards Dominik
