Re: [flexbackup-help] problems with $device variable

[Edwin H. <ed...@co...>]

[ Petr Voles wrote: ]
> 
> Errors:
>  $device must be set to a directory, a local device, or a remote device
> 
> the /dev/nst0 is sym-link to /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/mtn

Strange.

I have $device set a symlink that points to the real one as well, that's
not uncommon.

The code chases the symlink and then just sees if the result is a char
device or not.

What does. "ls -l /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/mtn" show?


You can also stick a debug statement in after line 2133:

    2130     # Chase links
    2131     $realdev = $cfg::device;
    2132     while (-l $realdev) {
    2133         $realdev = readlink($realdev);
                  print "Chased link, result is $realdev\n";
    2134     }
    2135


After that there's an if statement that just checks for $realdevice being a
  - char device
  - block device
  - directory
  - remote tape (host:/dev/device)
Only if all those fail does it give that error. 



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