There are symlinks for the archive devices but not the tape drive control devices which is what the tape alert commands need. I did already have it set to use the symlink for the autochanger at least so that won't jump around.
*> ls -l /dev/tape/by-id* *total 0lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 26 23:35 scsi-1ADIC_A0C0036905_LLA -> ../../sg8lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 26 23:35 scsi-3500308c099903000 -> ../../st4lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 26 23:35 scsi-3500308c099903000-nst -> ../../nst4lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 26 23:35 scsi-3500308c099903004 -> ../../st1lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 26 23:35 scsi-3500308c099903004-nst -> ../../nst1lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 26 23:35 scsi-3500308c099903094 -> ../../st3lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 26 23:35 scsi-3500308c099903094-nst -> ../../nst3lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 26 23:35 scsi-3500308c099903098 -> ../../st0lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 26 23:35 scsi-3500308c099903098-nst -> ../../nst0lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 26 23:35 scsi-3500308c09990309c -> ../../st2* *lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 26 23:35 scsi-3500308c09990309c-nst -> ../../nst2* My only other idea is that maybe you could create a script that rewrites the bacula-sd.conf every boot by parsing the output of this command as it shows which sg* devices correspond to the st* ones: *> lsscsi -g[0:0:0:0] cd/dvd HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR-T10N 1.02 /dev/sr0 /dev/sg0[2:0:0:0] tape IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 93GM /dev/st0 /dev/sg1[4:0:0:0] tape IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 93GM /dev/st1 /dev/sg2[5:0:0:0] tape IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 93GM /dev/st4 /dev/sg6[5:0:0:1] mediumx ADIC Scalar i500 630G /dev/sch0 /dev/sg8[6:0:0:0] tape IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 93GM /dev/st2 /dev/sg3[7:0:0:0] tape IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 93GM /dev/st3 /dev/sg4[9:0:0:0] disk ATA ST1000VN002-2EY1 SC60 /dev/sda /dev/sg5[9:0:1:0] disk ATA ST1000VN002-2EY1 SC60 /dev/sdb /dev/sg7* Thanks, Nate On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 12:42 AM Adam Nielsen <a.niel...@shikadi.net> wrote: > > I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.1 with Bacula 9.0.6 from the main repo. I'd like > to > > enable the above alerts from the sample bacula-sd.conf but can't because > my > > system is assigning random device names after each reboot so that > > /dev/nst0, /dev/nst1, etc. can be any /dev/sg* number. I looked into > > creating a udev rule for the drives but there's no output from the > control > > device that can be uniquely identified (DEVPATH can't be used in a udev > > rule I've found out): > > On my Arch Linux system, udev already has persistent rules for tapes > in /dev/tape: > > $ ls /dev/tape/by-id/ > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 Dec 18 20:45 . > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 Dec 18 18:22 .. > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 19 23:21 scsi-350014380125815e0 -> ../../sg6 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 19 23:21 scsi-350014380125815e1 -> ../../st0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 19 23:21 scsi-350014380125815e1-nst -> > ../../nst0 > > sg6 is the autochanger on my system. > > If your system doesn't have these, and no update to udev is available, > maybe you can copy the rules across from a newer version of udev[1]? > > > Is there another way do make this work? There's a more recent firmware > for > > my tape library, a Dell ML6000, that I've held off installing. Do you > > think a new firmware might allow the sg driver to provide more output? > > Nope, this is all part of the udev rule system. > > Cheers, > Adam. > > [1]: > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/rules/60-persistent-storage-tape.rules >
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