I've searched the amanda-users archives and the web for information on
setting up Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10h changer and have not
been able to find the information I need. The solutions previously on
the list range from "I got it to work" (with no discussion of how) to
"I hacked this program and wrote that one to get it to work" which
seems unnecessary (and anyway the attached files weren't available).
So, I need some help. I'm sure someone has done this. This is Amanda
2.4.2p2 on Linux (2.2.16 kernel, approximately).
I've setup the tapetype that commonly seems to be used, but I don't
think I thoroughly understand how to set this up. amcheck gives me
this error:
amcheck-server: could not get changer info: could not read result from
"/usr/local/libexec/chg-scsi-linux"
The relevant parts of amanda.conf are (from
examples/amanda.conf.chg-scsi):
tpchanger "chg-scsi-linux" # the tape-changer glue script
changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/daily/chg-scsi-linux.conf"
tapedev "0"
The changerfile is the examples/chg-scsi-linux.conf that builds with
Amanda (there's no docs anywhere that I can find that describe how to
manage this file).
If someone would be really kind and give me a step-by-step walk
through of how to set this up I'd appreciate it. Assume I know nothing
about tape devices on Linux. ;)
Thanks,
--
Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
