Thats how I do it here. 4 drives in a library. I run with 4 different config files, 1 for each drive. I start 4 amanda processes, Works fine.
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > 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. > > -- Mike Taylor Coordinator of Systems Administration and Network Security Indiana State University. Rankin Hall Rm 053 210 N 7th St. Terre Haute, IN. SANS GSEC http://www.sans.org/
