Hi,
For specific reasons i've seperated out pbs into a seperate lxc container - This is mainly due to the host being used for virutalization and other reasons.
I've been trying to get proxmox-tape to recognize my tape drive to no avail. Please note that the cephfs bind mount is only being used as a temporary storage area for pbs to be able to write to the tape machine. For harddrive backup I have another seperate pbs instance which is not tied together to cephfs. The intention here is to be able to store "the most vital" on a seperate storage medium.
Installing pbs directly on the host allows pbs to recognize the lto4 drive as I would expect.
What is somewhat strange is that mtx and mt works as I would expect but "proxmox-tape scan" does not.
For example:
mt
mtx
mtx towards the udev device...
To get going I've manually passed through the tape devices (and also the one exposed by ID created by the udev rules). I had to manually create the udev rules which follows the package of proxmox-backup-server
the lxc container is pretty much left fully open to access anything it want (I know its a security concearn
)
If I try to bypass the scan and create the device regardless this happens;
I find it somewhat strange that proxmox-tape utility believes is not a scsi generic tape which lsscsi --generic seems to agree with me on...
Looking at strace im having a hard time actually understanding why it fails
(see attached file)
Any thoughts on what I've might done wrong in the lxc setup would be greately appriciated. I'm assuming that its just a device i havent passed through correctly or that ive misunderstood how a device should be passthroughed...
For specific reasons i've seperated out pbs into a seperate lxc container - This is mainly due to the host being used for virutalization and other reasons.
I've been trying to get proxmox-tape to recognize my tape drive to no avail. Please note that the cephfs bind mount is only being used as a temporary storage area for pbs to be able to write to the tape machine. For harddrive backup I have another seperate pbs instance which is not tied together to cephfs. The intention here is to be able to store "the most vital" on a seperate storage medium.
Installing pbs directly on the host allows pbs to recognize the lto4 drive as I would expect.
What is somewhat strange is that mtx and mt works as I would expect but "proxmox-tape scan" does not.
For example:
mt
Code:
root@sh-pbs:~# mt -f /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x46 (LTO-4).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
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Code:
root@sh-pbs:~# mt -f /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x46 (LTO-4).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
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root@sh-pbs:~# mtx -f /dev/sg3 inquiry
Product Type: Tape Drive
Vendor ID: 'HP '
Product ID: 'Ultrium 4-SCSI '
Revision: 'W62D'
Attached Changer API: Nomtx towards the udev device...
Code:
root@sh-pbs:~# mtx -f /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-HUE1114VC5-sg inquiry
Product Type: Tape Drive
Vendor ID: 'HP '
Product ID: 'Ultrium 4-SCSI '
Revision: 'W62D'
Attached Changer API: NoTo get going I've manually passed through the tape devices (and also the one exposed by ID created by the udev rules). I had to manually create the udev rules which follows the package of proxmox-backup-server
the lxc container is pretty much left fully open to access anything it want (I know its a security concearn
)
Code:
arch: amd64
cores: 4
hostname: sh-pbs
memory: 8192
mp0: /mnt/pve/cephfs/sh-pbs/,mp=/srv/cephfs,shared=1
net0: name=eth0,bridge=vmbr0,hwaddr=76:EB:4B:84:0D:E0,ip=dhcp,tag=800,type=veth
ostype: debian
rootfs: NVME_Pool:vm-127-disk-0,size=8G
swap: 512
lxc.apparmor.profile: unconfined
lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: a
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/st0 dev/st0 none bind,optional,create=file 0 0
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/nst0 dev/nst0 none bind,optional,create=file 0 0
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/sg3 dev/sg3 none bind,optional,create=file 0 0
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-HUE1114VC5-sg dev/tape/by-id/scsi-HUE1114VC5-sg none bind,optional,create=file 0 0If I try to bypass the scan and create the device regardless this happens;
Code:
root@sh-pbs:~# proxmox-tape drive create hp-ultrium-lto4 --path /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-HUE1114VC5-sg
Error: path '/dev/tape/by-id/scsi-HUE1114VC5-sg' is not a lto SCSI-generic tape deviceI find it somewhat strange that proxmox-tape utility believes is not a scsi generic tape which lsscsi --generic seems to agree with me on...
Code:
root@sh-pbs:~# lsscsi --generic
[0:0:0:0] disk ATA ST8000VN0022-2EL SC61 - -
[1:0:0:0] disk ATA Samsung SSD 840 BB6Q - -
[3:0:0:0] disk ATA TOSHIBA HDWQ140 FJ1M - -
[4:0:0:0] disk ATA KINGSTON SA400S3 1103 - -
[6:0:6:0] tape HP Ultrium 4-SCSI W62D /dev/st0 /dev/sg3
[N:0:0:1] disk INTEL SSDPE2ME012T4__1Looking at strace im having a hard time actually understanding why it fails
(see attached file)
Any thoughts on what I've might done wrong in the lxc setup would be greately appriciated. I'm assuming that its just a device i havent passed through correctly or that ive misunderstood how a device should be passthroughed...
