On Sat, 25 May 2002, fil krohnengold wrote:
>Is there a way to utilize multiple drives in a single tape changer
>unit without splitting up the configuration?
If you would like to use them in parallel then no, there is no way to do
it without splitting the configuration between the drives. You could in
theory use chg-multi to use your drives serially but I see little point
in that if all of your tapes are in the same changer since you're still
only using one drive at a time. It seems to me there is little reason
to own more than one tape drive with amanda unless you've got multiple
configs going or you keep an extra drive around as a spare.
If any of the amanda hackers have any better ideas I'd love to hear
them. I've often wondered how amanda could be made to cope with this
situation. It can't be that uncommon. Let's say you've got some 19
tape Overland Data AIT library, and you're running out of capacity in
it, so you buy another identical library which requires using a
different drive to access those 19 tapes. Seems a shame not to be able
to specify runtapes 2 and have amanda use both drives in parallel.
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Computer Geek, Center for Structural Biology
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