<quote who="Gavin Henry"> > <quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> >> Our fibre channel devices show up as scsi devices on both Tru64 UNIX and >> HP-UX. I would expect most UNIX systems to behave the same. The >> underlying drivers are the same, as I understand it (FC being a >> serialized version of SCSI). >> >> Best wishes with the implementation. >> > > OK, now price is the next thing to decide on, which will dictate the > interface ;-) > > Thanks all.
Just a quick one to say our client is now running: Dell TL2000 LTO4 and a Dell SAS5e/i card and Amanda 2.5.2p1 on Centos 5.1: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mtx -f /dev/sg4 inquiry Product Type: Medium Changer Vendor ID: 'IBM ' Product ID: '3573-TL ' Revision: '4.50' Attached Changer: No [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mtx -f /dev/sg3 inquiry Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'IBM ' Product ID: 'ULT3580-TD4 ' Revision: '74H6' Attached Changer: No They are backing up 6 servers, with the first run tonight and a 3 tape span initial trial (we haven't bother to work out a total backup capacity requirement yet ;-) ). 2.4TB should be enough to test for one run as there is no way that much to backup. Last thing to fix is: There are 7 clients, including the amanda server itself, ranging from Centos 4.1, 5.1, Suse Ent 9, 1 Windows Box and Ubuntu 6.01 LTS. We did have a bit of a panic because the card wasn't seeing the library, but turned out to be a duff cable. Lastly, we are using the chg-zd-mtx changer but had a problem in that it wouldn't find mt or mtx! Had to edit and provide full paths to them like so: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /usr/lib/amanda/chg-lib.sh ################################################################################ # You may want to customize these values ################################################################################ # These are the defaults discovered by configure when Amanda was installed. # They can be overridden here, or by by 'mt_binary' and 'mtx_binary', # respectively, in the changerfile (currently only for chg-zd-mtx.sh and # chg-manual.sh). MT=/bin/mt MTX=/usr/sbin/mtx Thanks all, and I hope this reassures someone else that the latest and greatest LTO hardware works perfectly (as expected) with Amanda. Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
