RE: Migrating to Amanda, question 2

[Lengyel, Florian]

Title: RE: Migrating to Amanda, question 2

CentOS does work for me, but I had to add the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

# create sg devices and turn hardware spectralogic hardware compression off
modprobe sg
ln -s /dev/sg0 /dev/changer
mt -f /dev/nst0 compression 0
mt -f /dev/nst1 compression 0
amcleanup Daily

If you don't do the first two statements, you won't have the device needed
for mtx. The mt statements that turn off compression are worth a small
fortune in consulting fees: I defy anyone to find the value 0 in the man pages.
Actually you can find it in the man pages.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
Sent: Fri 2/10/2006 3:16 PM
To: amanda-users@amanda.org
Subject: Re: Migrating to Amanda, question 2

2006/2/10, Lengyel, Florian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Yes, it seems to have difficulty recognizing the second SCSI tape drive if
>  you have two. So one of my Spectralogic 2K tape drives is languishing,
>  while the other has all the fun.

I have 1 tape drive + 6 tape slots, but they still advised me to use a
more recent kernel.

Strangely mtx was not a requirement for BRU, only mt.   I do have it
installed anyway and I certainly will need it for Amanda.

--
Enrico Indiogine
Parasol Laboratory
Texas A&M University

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