On Thursday 30 November 2006 16:11, Toomas Aas wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 30 November 2006 08:19, Uwe M. Kaufmann wrote: >>> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.5) >>> SuSE Linux 10.0 >> >> Humm, and why is SuSE serving up such an old version of amanda? >> IIRC that version does not support vtapes (but somebody will correct >> me I'm sure), so I'm confused by the names below. And by your >> apparent use of the chg-multi utility with vtapes. Another example: > >Actually Amanda 2.4.5 does support vtapes. I have an Amanda config >currently running version 2.4.4 and using chg-multi, because chg-disk >didn't exist back when this setup went live, and chg-multi was a >commonly used workaround for working with vtapes. We're not all as up to >speed with latest Amanda versions as you are :)
Chuckle, I guess I had that coming. I was never aware that chg-multi could be made to use vtapes. I assume it doesn't use the 'data' linkage then, but somehow uses the actual tape name given to the directory? OTOH, maybe its time it 'went live' with a newer version? IMO, the major problems over time that occur because of updated utilities are far more prevalent than problems with amanda itself. I give you the tar debacles for almost every new version since 1.13-25, although I used 1.15-1 without any problems. And that's what FC6 installed, so its in use again. I was trying to use real (now that's an oxymoron when referring to DDS2 tapes) tapes till about 2 years ago. In Seacrate changers. Thanks for clarifying that Toomas. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
