Hi all, new to the group! :-)
I have a 400GIG RAID array on an Sun E3500 and a new Exabyte 110L tape
library to back it up.
No Oricle, or anything, just GIS data.
The Exabyte uses LTO tapes (100GIGnative, 200GIG compressed) and has 10
slots for 10 tapes.
Also, the 110L has scsi mode and sequential mode, not sure which one would
be best.
I've been looking into Amanda and mtx, but am a little confused, both are
compiled and installed.
I haven't done anything with any scsi conf files, ie, st.conf,
sgen.conf,etc. I can edit these files if necessary, but being on a
production system,
reboots are very rate. My guess is I need to?
I have done a boot -r since I installed the 110L.
I've been playing with the example amanda.conf, etc files, but just can't
seem to get it.
Tapetypes, not sure what to put there?
Issue amtape, amlabel, etc., nothing happens!
Although, when I issue amtape eject, the tape does eject from the tape
drive, but how do I tell it to load the tape in slot 2?
I've tried amtape slot 3 to load the tape in slot 3, but nothing happens.
The other alternative I'm looking at is Veritas NetBackup. Not out of the
question, but trying to save $$$! :-)
Anyone else have or use this kind of setup on a Sun system?
I've been using ufsdump forever, and not too familiar with tape libraries.
I can use the 110L manually with pushing buttons on the 110L, and moving
tapes that way.
mt -f /dev/rmt/1 status gets
Vendor 'IBM ' Product 'ULTRIUM-TD1 ' tape drive:
sense key(0x0)= No Additional Sense residual= 0 retries= 0
file no= 0 block no= 0
Tape drive at scsi ID 1, autoloader at scsi ID 0
I apologize if this has been answered before, or I've missed something so
obvious! :-)
I have read the FAQ's, web, etc.
Thanks for any help.
Don
