[Go] MHVTL installation and application of Virtual tape library

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1. Get MHVTL:

Official website: http://mhvtl.nimsa.us

This site is a forum, its software download point in http://sites.google.com/site/linuxvtl2/, the site is not stable, sometimes open, sometimes can not open, I will put the current version of the attachment upload, convenient for you to test.

Note: After downloading the attachment, change the suffix. zip to. tgz.

The current version is mhvtl-2010-09-01.

2. Installation:

Before installing MHVTL, install the following packages:

Then create the VTL User:

Unzip the MHVTL-2010-09-01.TGZ package:

Compile MHVTL:

After the installation is complete, start MHVTL:

If there is no configuration file, the default configuration is generated. View with Lsscsi–g:

The/DEV/SG10 and/dev/sg11 here are robotic.

This default capacity is 500MB, this can be viewed MHVTL configuration file mhvtl.conf:

Capacity=500 means that the default capacity is 500MB.

3. Simple application:

To view the manipulator status:

Load the tape from slot 1th into driver 0:

To view the tape status:

Under test with the tar command, can I write to the file:(Note: The command is more than one parameter "V", the correct command is: tar-cvf/dev/st1/boot)

The write succeeds, the test can read it : (Note: The command is more than one parameter "V", the correct command is: tar-tvf/dev/st1)

OK, read success.

Next Test Rewind:

To unmount a tape:

OK, uninstall succeeded.

For the use of this software in conjunction with other applications, follow-up will be released, please look forward to!

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[Go] MHVTL installation and application of Virtual tape library