1) If you're pressed for time, and you can reach into your changer and
change tapes manually, you can get AMANDA working with the manual changer,
then automate later.
2) AMANDA will handle backing up to multiple tapes with one important
limitation: each individual partition (or tar file) being backed up must be
able to fit on a single tape. If you go through 4 20Gb tapes backing up 80
1Gb partitions, you should be ok.
3) AFAIK. There is also a site on SourceForge, but www.amanda.org is the
main one.
-----Original Message-----
From: Weissborn, William, JR (Bill) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 11:41 AM
To: 'Amanda Users List'
Subject: Is Amanda a good choice for my backup problems or not
I'm sure this has been asked before and I am perusing the FAQ. However, due
to time-constraints for this project I'm looking for quick
answers/confirmations to the following:
1) Using a Sun StorEdge L280 DLT tape-drive with 6 tape-bays. From what I
have read so far, I will need a juke-box driver and/or home-brewed scripts
to manipulate the robotics. Is that correct? Is there any place on the web
where I can find examples of how this was done? Any recommendations on
which juke-box driver(s) to use?
2) Amanda does not "cross" tapes, i.e., if it is backing up more data than
will fit on one tape it stops/errors-out. Is that correct or has anyone
developed a work-around/patch.
3) Is www.amanda.org the official website?
Thanks in advance
Bill W.
