Subject: Re: amanda-2.4.2 and tape changers
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Dave Burgess <burgess@neonramp.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/24/2001 00:29:20
A different question - has anyone ever figured out how to get the dumps
to go to multiple tape drives on multiple machines from the same Amanda
run?

I have three different tape drives with three different Amanda's
running, and I'd really like to get it down to one management session
using whichever of the three tapes is available at the moment.

Greywolf wrote:
> 
> Do amanda dumps actually span multiple tapes now, or does it hit EOT
> and restart?
> 
> On 23 Jan 2001, Chris Jones wrote:
> 
> # Date: 23 Jan 2001 17:25:28 -0700
> # From: Chris Jones <chris@cjones.org>
> # To: tech-pkg@netbsd.org
> # Subject: amanda-2.4.2 and tape changers
> #
> # I recently updated the amanda packages from 2.4.1p1 to 2.4.2.  In the
> # process, the amanda folks have made major changes to their tape
> # changer code.  I did the best I could, but I have only one (flaky)
> # changer to test it against.
> #
> # If there's anybody else out there who's using the
> # amanda-server-2.4.1p1 package with a SCSI tape changer, I would
> # greatly appreciate it if you could test the new amanda-server-2.4.2
> # package in your installation.
> #
> # I have a hunch that I'm going to need to change a few lines of code,
> # but it's nasty and difficult to read, and I don't want to change it
> # unless it broke for somebody.
> #
> # Chris
> #
> # P.S.:  Should this message go to current-users, too?
> #
> # --
> # ----------------------------------------------------- chris@cjones.org
> # Chris Jones                                           Mad scientist at large
> #
> 
>                                 --*greywolf;
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