On Feb 15, 2008, at 7:06 AM, Bruce Arro wrote:
Hi All
I`m trying to get a 3490 tape drive working with bacula from VM.
This is where I am.
Installed the Z/vm utilities. BACULATM and RAWBACULA and well as the
labeling utilities.
I can get the tape online from Linux with the command chccwdev - e
0.0.0181.
But when I run ./btape -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd conf /dev/ntibm0 to
test the tape and autochanger it fails.
Is the tape drive /dev/ntibm0?
What is the changer device? Is it /dev/rtibm0, and what is /dev/
btibm0?
Can someone send me a sample of their bacula-sd.conf file and mtx-
changer files.
The tape drive is /dev/ntibm0. The changer device is vm-hostname:port
(50200 is the default port). "slot" is the tape label known to vm.
These are passed as arguments to mtx-changer.pl (note: NOT the default
mtx-changer script--replace it with the perl client that talks to the
VM server).
This is explained in the examples directory. There's no direct
support for IBM changer hardware. What I and David did was to write a
little client-server program that implemented the bacula-changer
interface, and passed the mount/unmount requests across a TCP channel
to the VM side of the system, and then used CMS tools to do the actual
library manipulation, reporting back to the client on the Linux side.
That's what BACULATM and RAWBACULA are.
Look in the Bacula-VM.pdf file for fairly complete documentation of
this.
Adam
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