Hello *, we're going to set up a backup-server running Amanda and using a 'HP SureStore Autoloader 1/9' with FreeBSD. We're planning to use a 73GB (ok, technically it's 70GB) (dedicated) holding disk.
One of our Servers has a 140GB Partition (on RAID) and has almost uncompressable data. As I read in the FAQ it is not possible to split dumps to multiple tapes using amanda. Our Autoloader has a "stacker"-mode, where all 9 DLT tapes are logically concaternated and the system sees just one tapedrive with 360GB. But on the other hand amanda wants to have /one tape per day/ for the incre- mental backups it wouldn't be a really good idea to change 9 tapes every day with only just some little incrementals on it :-/ Is it possible to run a multi-volume tar as a full backup manually and just use dump to get the incrementals (in amanda)? It would need 3 /9 of our tapes, and the other 6 tapes will be available to use with Amanda. What do you think all about this? Any other/better ideas? TIA Regards Raphael Becker PS: mtx is able to talk to the autoloader through /dev/pass0 (= /dev/sg0 in Linux), so using it will not be a problem for me. In stacker-mode the loader is handled "internally" only / is not available to the host. PPS: Loader-Info in dmesg: sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 sa0: <BNCHMARK DLT1 391B> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit) pass0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 pass0: <HP C7145 2330> Removable Changer SCSI-3 device pass0: 3.300MB/s transfers
