How to specify TAR or DUMP
Title: How to specify TAR or DUMP Hi all, Where in the amanda.conf do I specify what form of backup Amanda is supposed to use. Like TAR or DUMP?
non-rewinding?
Title: non-rewinding? Hi all, I finally got my changer working with the stctl driver SCSI II (Exabyte 10H with EXB 8500 series drive/tapes). Running on Solaris 7 (sparc). My changer finally sees all the tapes in it and now I have moved on to the point where I begin to 'amlabel' each of them. The only problem is when I try and run 'amlabel' on them to make them ready for 'amdump' it tells me something along the lines of, are you sure drive is not non-rewinding and then quits without even labeling the tapes. It tells me to check my amanda.conf file to verify that the drive is non-rewinding. I'm not sure what that really means to Amanda, I know what the wording non-rewinding means, but is there a way to work around it or to make Amanda NOT think my drive is non-rewinding so that it will continue to label my tapes for 'amdump'? Please help... Thanks in advance, Christopher A. Los Angeles, Ca.
stctl question
Title: stctl question Is there anyone that is using the 'stctl' driver for their changer that has ever seen this problem before: I have already installed the driver stctl and when I issue the 'stc status' command I get a report of my changer not having any tapes in it. This is not true, I have it loaded full with tapes. I'm just curious as to if anyone has ever seen this before and might know what to do in this case. Thanks all! Christopher A. Los Angeles, Ca.
RE: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H ch ange r before?
Title: RE: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H ch ange r before? Thanks everyone for all of your help on this! -Original Message- From: Joe Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 1:01 AM To: Adams, Christopher Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H ch ange r before? If STCTL isn't seeing the tapes beind loaded, you're asking on the wrong list. Amanda just uses STCTL. If you can, you might want to upgrade to Solaris 8 and take advantage of the built-in SGEN driver. This way you can bug sun if it doesn't work ;-) On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:58:35PM -0800, Adams, Christopher wrote: I'm running Solaris 7 in 64 bit mode with the stctl driver, but the stctl driver keeps reporting all the bays empty. The connection type from Sun Box to Exabyte changer is SCSI II. Let me know if I can supply you with anymore needed information. Sorry about being vague before, its just that last time I asked this mailing list about this particular problem I wrote about 3 pages of details and got not a single bite. I was kind of testing to see if I got a response this time. Glad you responded, I'll let you know everything I can. -Original Message- From: Joe Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:54 PM To: Adams, Christopher Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H change r before? Yes, but we'd need to know that OS, hardware, etc you are running before we can help you in any useful fashion. If I told you Yes, running my private distribution of Linux it wouldn't help you much ;-) The actual answer is 'yes, running Solaris 8 with the sgen driver and mtx' but again this may or may not be helpful. On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:58:29AM -0800, Adams, Christopher wrote: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H changer before? Running an Exabyte 8500 series tape drive. If so please!!! Tell me how you did it. Christopher A. Los Angeles, Ca. -- Joe Rhett Chief Technology Officer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISite Services, Inc. PGP keys and contact information: http://www.noc.isite.net/Staff/ -- Joe Rhett Chief Technology Officer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISite Services, Inc. PGP keys and contact information: http://www.noc.isite.net/Staff/
Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H changer before?
Title: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H changer before? Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H changer before? Running an Exabyte 8500 series tape drive. If so please!!! Tell me how you did it. Christopher A. Los Angeles, Ca.
Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H changer before?
Title: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H changer before? Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H changer before? Running an Exabyte 8500 series tape drive. If so please!!! Tell me how you did it. Christopher A. Los Angeles, Ca.
Quick question about STCTL
Title: Quick question about STCTL I'm trying to get stctl working so that I can move on to the Amanda stages, Can anyone help me with this that has probably had troubles in my same area? I'm situation is below: I have stctl installed and configured (I think properly) on my Sun E250 running Solaris 7 in 64 bit mode (I am still using the 32 bit driver nonetheless). I have an Exabyte 10 H changer assembly with an Exabyte 8500 series drive. When I use the command 'stc status' I get this output: numdrives=1(0) numtransports=1(e) numloadbays=0() numslots=10(m,e,e,e,e,e,e,e,e,e) And when I type the command: 'stc load 3 1' (assuming I'm saying load tape 3 into drive 1) I get this output: stc: Slot 3 reported empty This isn't true, I have tapes loaded in every slot on the changer. Can you think of anything that I might be doing wrong? Assuming I have configured the /usr/kernel/drv/stctl.conf correctly and the major and minor updates are correct is there a way to cause stc to learn that the slots are full? Or is there a way for stc to check to see if the bays have tapes in them so that it doesn't report 'stc: Slot # empty' ? Thanks for all of your help, I have been on this for months with no success Christopher A. Starbase Corp. Los Angeles, Ca.
RE: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H change r before?
Title: RE: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H change r before? I'm running Solaris 7 in 64 bit mode with the stctl driver, but the stctl driver keeps reporting all the bays empty. The connection type from Sun Box to Exabyte changer is SCSI II. Let me know if I can supply you with anymore needed information. Sorry about being vague before, its just that last time I asked this mailing list about this particular problem I wrote about 3 pages of details and got not a single bite. I was kind of testing to see if I got a response this time. Glad you responded, I'll let you know everything I can. -Original Message- From: Joe Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:54 PM To: Adams, Christopher Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H change r before? Yes, but we'd need to know that OS, hardware, etc you are running before we can help you in any useful fashion. If I told you Yes, running my private distribution of Linux it wouldn't help you much ;-) The actual answer is 'yes, running Solaris 8 with the sgen driver and mtx' but again this may or may not be helpful. On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:58:29AM -0800, Adams, Christopher wrote: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H changer before? Running an Exabyte 8500 series tape drive. If so please!!! Tell me how you did it. Christopher A. Los Angeles, Ca. -- Joe Rhett Chief Technology Officer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISite Services, Inc. PGP keys and contact information: http://www.noc.isite.net/Staff/
