On Tuesday 06 January 2004 09:50, Pierre-Henry DELIEGE wrote: >Dear, >I.m really new with Amanda and I'm trying to understand the > tpchanger chg-zd-mtx before implementing it with a SCSI library > containing 72 slots and 4 drives. >I have a misunderstanding of the usage of Amanda and the tpchanger > with multiple drives. How does it work ? >In the amanda.conf file, you can specify only one drive (tapedev >"/dev/nsa1") >In the changer.conf file, you can only specify one drive > (driveslot=0) So how can we use more than one drive ? Do we have to > make a config file per drive ? > >Thanks in advance for your help. > > >Pierre-Henry DELIEGE First thing is to increase the number_configs below -----------------------my chg.scsi.conf------ number_configs 1 eject 0 # Tapedrives need an eject command sleep 15 # Seconds to wait until the tape gets ready cleanmax 100 # How many times could a cleaning tape get used scsitapedev /dev/sg0 # test entry per Jean-Louis request changerdev /dev/sg1 # # Next comes the data for drive 0 # config 0 drivenum 0 dev /dev/nst0 # the device that is used for the tapedrive 0 startuse 0 # The slots associated with the drive 0 enduse 3 # statfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/tape-slot # The file where the actual slot is stored #cleancart 3 # the slot where the cleaningcartridge for drive 0 is located #cleanfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/tape-clean # The file where the cleanings are recorded usagecount /usr/local/etc/amanda/totaltime
# This is the end ------------------- Then append: config 1 drivenum 1 etc etc... This is for a chg-scsi.conf system, but I'd think that chg-zd-mtx should behave similarly. If not, then you might want to take a look at chg-scsi. Its running a small (DDS2) single drive equipt changer here. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
