On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:01:58AM -0800, Kevin Dalley wrote: > "Gavin Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you give them all a different ips, then write a perl/python > > etc. script that pings the machines before amcheck kicks in and then > > the script can delete or insert a # as appropriate in the disklist: > > > > Or maybe not ;-) > > If they have different IP addresses, then you don't really need a > script to modify disklist. The other OSes will just fail when amdump > is run, and get picked up again next time. > > However, this approach requires that each OS is available often enough > in your tapecycle to have satisfactory backups. > > Having everything mounted on each OS has advantages here.
Not as much as you might think. The mount points would vary from OS to OS so there would be a ton of DLE's, one for each FS times the number of OS's. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
