On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Edward Kuhn wrote:
> I installed on my home server, a DecPX XL590 with scsi hard drive and ide
> Exabyte Tr4i tape drive as a prelude to using at the office.
>
> Backup seems to be working although I found that I needed to edit two files
> in /etc/e-smith/templates - the 10Device file in flexbackup.conf directory
> and 20probe-tape in sbin/backup directories to see /dev/nht0. After this a
> backup configured through the web admin interface seemed to work and also a
> backup started from the shell. I say "seemed" as I have yet to restore from
> this backup to verify the data.
>
> Any suggestions so I don't need to edit files?
Suggestion 1:
Don't edit anything in /etc/e-smith/templates, create a directory under
/etc/e-smith/templates-custom, copy the file into that directory, then
edit the custom template.
Suggestion 2:
You don't need to edit anything anyway, you can use the device /dev/nht0
instead of /dev/nst0 by doing:
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop backup Device /dev/nht0
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event conf-backup
Suggestion 3:
You shouldn't have had to change anything, because 4.1 is configured to
enable SCSI emulation for IDE tape drives. If it did not work for your
system, then that is a bug which should be investigated. Did you try it?
If so, and it didn't work, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with details
and we will try to investigate. Send copies of /etc/modules.conf, and
the output of "mt -f /dev/st0 status", and of /proc/scsi/scsi.
Thanks
Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Phone: +1 (613) 368 4376 or 564 8000 Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739
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