What's the best way to set up tape changer manual with two tapes? Just set runtapes 2, tape changer chg-manual ? And for label tapes? I must label all tapes before set those options? I also think i have to update tapecycle...
I'm wait for any suggestion, because i don't know what's is the correct way... Thanks a lot. Giovanni -----Messaggio originale----- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Jon LaBadie Inviato: giovedì 27 ottobre 2005 17.02 A: [email protected] Oggetto: Re: R: Release of amanda-2.5.0b1 On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:37:36AM +0200, Montagni, Giovanni wrote: > >> -----Messaggio originale----- >> Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Jean-Louis Martineau >> Inviato: martedì 25 ottobre 2005 13.08 >> A: [email protected]; [email protected] >> Oggetto: Release of amanda-2.5.0b1 >> >> Hello, >> >> The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda >> 2.5.0b1. It is a redesign of many part of amanda. >> >> The span/split patch from John Stange was ported to 2.5.0 and is >> integrated in this release. > > This means that in 2.5.0 i can use two tape for backup without tape > changer? So when the end of first tape is reached, amanda eject the > tape and wait for the second? > I believe the two capabilities are independent. You always (well, for a very long time) could use multiple tapes without a changer. There is a "pseudo-changer" script, chg-manual, that notifies the operator when it is necessary to swap tapes. The tape span/split patch removes the restriction that the entire image of each single DLE dump must tape to a single tape. With the patch activated an image that partially fits at the end of a tape can be continued on the next tape rather than restarting from the beginning of the image. Your posting raises a question I don't recall addressed. How does the span/split patch handle the situation where runtapes is 1 and/or no changer is specified? Or where runtapes is N and on the Nth tape an image doesn't fit? I presume the last image is restarted the next run of taper or if direct to tape that image is lost? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
