On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:01:09PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote:
> It seems to me what you want to do is set up an Amanda configuration
> on each and every machine, then write a changer script that knows about
> all of the machines and allocates a drive on request, pausing all other
> requests until a drive is available. Then each Amanda server will only
> back up itself and it will do it directly to the FC attached drive.
Ok, I guess I'll start learning about changer scripts. :)
> >Argh. Something else entirely just occurred to me-- if I have a 500 GB
> >partition, amanda still doesn't split dumps across tapes, does it?
>
> I'm literally coding this feature right now (when I'm not answering a
> few hundred amanda-users E-mails per day :-).
>
> I'll be looking for beta testers soon. How brave are you??? :-)
I'm brave enough to try to save myself $30-60K by using amanda[0] instead of
one of the other solutions out there. :)
Do you have any time frame for "soon"? I may not have all my hardware
here until the end of January.
(Besides, we're going to start out with enough extra capacity that I
should be able to do lots of testing and playing.)
-ron
[0] I don't consider amanda much of a risk-- I implemented it at a prior
job, and was pleased with the results. Worst case scenario involves
having smaller filesystems until amanda can support larger ones.
> >-ron
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
