On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:26:50AM -0400, GOODWYN,RON (HP-USA,ex1) wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm pretty new to AMANDA. I have a few questions that will be helpful to me > as I explore more AMANDA documentation. > > 1. Can the tape server be a system other then the AMANDA server or a system > acting as both the client and the server. So in other words, lets say you > have systems A, B, and C. System A is the client. System B, is the AMANDA > server and system C is the tape server. Does the AMANDA architecture allow > for this? >
Joshua has already answered the other questions quite well. Only one possibility I can think of here, but I've never seen it implemented. Solaris, bsd, maybe linux/gnu, and Joerg Schilling, have a program "rmt" for Remote Magnetic Tape. I don't know any details about its usage though. I've only used it with programs already setup for the purpose. Eg. solaris' dump can specify the tape device as "host:device" and it will automagicaly use rmt. If you explore using rmt for the setup you propose and are succesful, be sure to report back to the list. One problem I forsee is double network traffic. First in going to the amanda controlling host, then via rmt to the tapehost. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
