cant add changer - Tandberg T24 LTO6

[Shakran]

So i got my hands on a Autoloader, and want to store stuff on it ofcourse,
The Autoloader is visible in Proxmox VE, gets a device path /dev/sch0, the tapedrive gets /dev/st0

i tried to get it running in the pbs lxc, but here the devices dont have a path.
Got around that by specifying the paths as device passthrough.

now when i go to the pbs console, "proxmox-tape changer scan" has no output.
lsscsi gives me the listing of it.
ls -lh /dev/tape/by-id/ gives me "no direcotry"

If i try to add it with "proxmox-tape create Autoloader --path /dev/sch0"
i get "Error: path '/dev/sch0' is not a lto SCSI-generic tape device"

so thats wher eim stuck atm. I cant add it into the pbs lxc.
I cant add another server just to slip in the LSI controller and add the autoloader.
i try to make it work in VM or LXC.
Veeam seems to not support lxc for now, so i cant really use that.

 

[aaron]

Unpriviledged LXC? Then you will have to allow access to the device(s) to the container. Alternatively, a priviledged container might work. Or if you already fix the PBS hard on that node, installing it side by side bare metal should also not come with any downsides that you don't already have.

 

[Shakran]

Unpriviledged LXC? Then you will have to allow access to the device(s) to the container. Alternatively, a priviledged container might work. Or if you already fix the PBS hard on that node, installing it side by side bare metal should also not come with any downsides that you don't already have.

Ah okay, will need to try that out. So far i just tried to do it with the device passthrough option, but this dint work yet. Havent tried a Privileged container yet, thats the Next step.

And running the backup server besides the Proxmox VE works? i will need to see into that if this works...that would be great.

 

[aaron]

And running the backup server besides the Proxmox VE works? i will need to see into that if this works...that would be great.

https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/installation.html#install-proxmox-backup-server-on-proxmox-ve

That is what I am using myself hat home where I only have a single server.

 

[Shakran]

https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/installation.html#install-proxmox-backup-server-on-proxmox-ve

That is what I am using myself hat home where I only have a single server.

i think i will need to try that.
Even with a privileged container, and passtroughs, device permissins, cant get it to see the autoloader.
ive seen some posts where it was mentioned that a bare metal installation would work alot better than containers or VM's and take out alot of the complexity.