Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 10:33:00 -0500 From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMANDA and chio(1) Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000505103234.00aa02b0@mail.utexas.edu>
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I'll give you what little I know. I'm currently "suffering" through installing and configuring Amanda with an Overland Data DLT 15-slot autoloader, but I'm using versions 2.4.1p1 and 2.4.2-beta. The 2.4.1p1 version is the latest "officially" released version and there are patches for it as well. On the subject of nuplot, that's only needed is you want to use the amplot utility that's included with amanda. If you don't need it or want it, then you don't have to install gnuplot or X. As for the changer, I'm only to the point of using chio (and recently mtx) to control it. Amanda includes some scripts that will use these utilities, namely chg-chio, and chg-mtx (read through the docs, TAPE.CHANGERS). Recently, amanda did include a new changer utility called chg-scsi. From what I understand though, you should use the chg-scsi version included with 2.4.2 beta. A few things to note if you're going to use version 2.4.1p1 of Amanda on FreeBSD: 1. You will get an error when running make, something about "ces_data". You need to get the file /changer-src/scsi-chio.c from the 2.4.2-beta and use it in compiling 2.4.1p1. 2. If you're going to use chg-scsi instead of chg-chio or chg-mtx, you should also use the chg-scsi included with 2.4.2-beta 3. In order to use amanda properly, you need to have a tapetype definition. You can get a list of those off of the Amanda web page (<http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sdossick/amanda/>) or you can run the tapetype utility. Once again, it's recommended that you build the tapetype included with 2.4.2-beta (change into the /tape-src directory and issue the command "make tapetype") as it's significantly faster. You can look through the Amanda mail list archives at: <http://www.egroups.com/list/amanda-users/>; <http://www.egroups.com/list/amanda-hackers/>; with the main Amanda page at: <http://www.amanda.org>; HTH Oscar At 08:15 AM 5/5/00 -0400, Crist J. Clark, you wrote: >I am trying to get AMANDA 2.3.0 to work with our tape jukebox. To be >able to control the jukebox, AMANDA needs a "glue" program or script >to be the interface between it and the jukebox. One way to do this is >via a script that uses chio(1) (which seems to work fine with the >jukebox). The other is a program that actually sends the SCSI >commands. Nothing like that comes with AMANDA 2.3.0, and I have not >found such a thing looking at the maillist archive or websearch. I >would guess someone out there is doing this and has these things? >Would it be possible to pass the information along? > >AMANDA 2.4.1, which is also in the ports, seems to come with a SCSI >glue program. However, the port claims to be dependent on gnuplot >which in turn claims to need X11. I do not have X11 on this system and >was not planning on putting it on. Does AMANDA 2.4.1 _really_ need >X11? Would the glue programs that come with it work for 2.3.0? "Don't believe the hype" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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