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Operating Systems HP-UX tape drive access/backup Post 302195149 by davel1000 on Wednesday 14th of May 2008 11:51:43 AM

05-14-2008

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tape drive access/backup

Quote:

Originally Posted by vbe

Greetings,
Start by typing:
lssf /dev/rmt/0m
What does it give?

Hello and thank you ...

lssf /dev/rmt/0m gives following:
stape card instance 2 scsi target 2 scsi lun 0 at&t best density available at address 10/0/15/0.2.0 /dev/rmt/0m

there is also 0mb, 0mn, 0mnb, c2t2d0BEST, c2t2d0BESTb, c2t2d0BESTn, c2t2d0BESTnb in the /dev/rmt directory. when I do an lssf on these, it appears they are at&t or berkeley, no rewind, etc. What this means I have no idea!

Likewise, along the same lines, I tried to use the CD_ROM (Lite-On LTR-24102B) and floppy. In sam they are shown as "unused"? I tried to mount the CD_ROM by following a HP-UX installation guide. It says to first search for the drive with /usr/sbin/ioscan | grep -i CD. Comes back with a hardware path and lists the Lite-On LTS-24102B. Then I tried to mount the drive per book using sam by first selecting disks and file systems, then selecting file systems, then selecing add local file system not using the logical volume manager from actions pulldown menu, selected the Lite-On drive, entered the mount directory as /SD_CDROM, checked create new file system box, checked set user id execution, and unchecked "at every system boot box". But when I said ok, the system prompted with "checking for unmounted file system ..." followed by "creating a new file system ..." followed by "the command, newfs(1m), used to create a new file system on /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0 has failed. The stderr output from the command is shown below.
newfs(hfs): cannot open /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0
newfs(hfs): device busy"

I also tried to mount the drive without sam per book with /usr/sbin/mount/dev/dsk/c1t2d0 (also tried c0t0d0)/SD_CDROM but resulted in "not found".

The tape drive is my highest priority.

This is very frustrating. Thanks in advance.

davel1000

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amrmtape

AMRMTAPE(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       AMRMTAPE(8)

NAME

       amrmtape - remove a tape from the Amanda database

SYNOPSIS

       amrmtape [ -n ] [ -v ] [ -q ] [ -d ] config label

DESCRIPTION

       Amrmtape  invalidates  the contents of an existing backup tape in the configuration database.  This is meant as a recovery mechanism when a
       good backup is damaged either by faulty hardware or user error, e.g. the tape is eaten by the drive or is overwritten.

       See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda.

OPTIONS

       -n     Generate new tapelist and database files with label removed, but leave them in /tmp and do not update the original copies.

       -v     List backups of hosts and disks that are being discarded.  Enabled by default.

       -q     Opposite of -v.

       -d     Run in debugging mode so all executed commands are shown.

EXAMPLE

       Remove tape labeled DAILY034 from the DailySet1 configuration.

	      # amrmtape DailySet1 DAILY034

AUTHOR

       Adrian T. Filipi-Martin <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu>

SEE ALSO

       amadmin(8), amanda(8)

																       AMRMTAPE(8)

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