On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Aaron Rainwater - TXDC SysAdmin wrote:
>Okay, so if I go with the 4-Client-4-FileSys and 1-Host-4-TapeDrive
>situation. Can Amanda backup the 4 filesystems to the 4 tape-drives
>simultaneously from one config file? From what I've configured so
>far (with the chg-multi.conf), it can only treat drives as a
>disk-changer writing to them serially (even though they are 4
>separate drives that could be written to simultaniously).
I don't believe it can do it simulataneously, no. It can do it
serially, yes. One possible way to get it going in parallel is to
define 4 seperate config files, one for each client. Then if your cron
job runs 4 copies of amdump, each with a different config specified, it
should run in parallel. Each config just has a disklist which knows
about the disks on its assigned machine. This might even have nice
administrative side effects, making it easier to keep each machine on a
specific set of tapes and being able to modify the configs on a per
machine basis. Let the list know if you get it setup and running. I
think we'd be interested to hear your success story.
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Computer Geek, Center for Structural Biology
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