Amanda will handle multiple tapes. Since you don't have a tape changer you
will need to use the chg-manual definition for the tape type which will
require you to run it differently. I had first started using amanda with a
single tape drive and had the same sort of issues when I first started.
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Gregory Propf wrote:
> I have an old Travan floppy tape (400mb uncompressed). Am I right that
> Amanda cannot use multiple tapes? This sounds like a pretty severe
> limitation for me with such a small tape. I also have a question about
> hardware compression. I'm running Linux and I need to know how to turn
> hardware compression on and off. I'm more interested in turning it off
> since the FAQ seems to say that software compression gives you better
> compression. BTW - this is for a home network, right now I have three
> Linux machines. If the consensus is that this tape is too small to be
> useful can anyone recommend a good high capacity backup solution for
> Linux? Thanks - Greg
>
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