On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 01:45:06PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:11:21PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Ralf Auer schrieb: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > > > I'm trying to use two physical tape drives (HP Ultrium 960) with > > > Amanda. According to the manual, I could use a tape changer (e.g. > > > chg-multi) to get the job done, but that would write only to one disk at > > > a time, right? > > > > > > I do not want to split my backup in two different configurations, so > > > maybe you know a way how to use both tapes simultaneously in one > > > configuration? I am pretty sure, it can be done, because otherways the > > > 'runtapes' option in amanda.conf would not make much sense, I think... > > > > > > Unfortunately I did not find anything helpful about that issue in the > > > manual or the mailing list. > > > > > > At the moment I am using Amanda 2.4.5 on Ubuntu 5.10 & FC3 but I would > > > not mind to upgrade if a newer Amanda version is needed for this feature. > > > > RAIT: > > > > http://www.amanda.org/docs/rait.html > > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Set_Up_RAIT_(Redundant_Array_of_Independent_Tapes) > > I should have mentioned RAIT, but note that with two tape drives RAIT > will only do mirroring, not striping. >
Unless things have changed, I believe the third drive can be /dev/null. It will serve as a non-existant parity drive. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
