On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:36:39AM +0100, Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paul Bijnens said the following: > > Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH wrote: > >>has anyone a setup where the rait driver of amanda is used to place > >>Backups onto tapes and virtual tapes (using the chg-multi) at the same > >>time? Are there drawbacks and what problems could arise? > >>I already use both of them separate (on different hosts), but I'm not > >>sure about the rait setup... > > I'm planning so set up something like that over the next weeks. > > I'll summarize on the list when I get to it. > Would be nice. As I read the RAIT driver only does RAIT-5, but I want > RAIT-1. Or is there some other way for mirroring tapes? >
I'm not certain of this because reading the docs I saw doesn't mention it. However ... If I recall correctly, since the amanda RAIT driver tries to do a parity drive, impossible with only two drives, if you have only two drives specified it falls back to a mirror configuration. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
