Installation

Requirements for tape access

You need to install LTFS >= 2.4 to enable phobos access to tapes.

LTFS RPM can be found on IBM Fix Central: ltfs 2.4

You can also retrieve its sources on gihub: https://github.com/LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs

If you want to build RPMs from these sources, you can find packaging resources (i.e. spec file) for LTFS here: https://github.com/piste2750/rpm-ltfs

Note: since LTFS 2.4, lin_tape driver is no longer needed to access tapes. LTFS now uses the standard linux tape driver (st).

Phobos installation

Install phobos and its requirements:

yum install phobos

Database setup (on RHEL7/CentOS7)

Install postgresql version >= 9.4 (from EPEL or any version compatible with Postgres 9.4):

yum install postgresql94-server postgresql94-contrib

Initialize postgresql directories:

/usr/pgsql-9.4/bin/postgresql94-setup initdb

Edit /var/lib/pgsql/9.4/data/pg_hba.conf to authorize access from phobos host (localhost in this example):

# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all             all                                     trust
# IPv4 local connections:
host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            md5
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all             all             ::1/128                 md5

Start the database server:

systemctl start postgresql-9.4.service

Finally, create phobos database and tables as postgres user (the password for SQL phobos user will be prompted for unless provided with -p):

sudo -u postgres phobos_db setup_db -s