On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Alan Bunch <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking at Amanda as a new backup server. I have a two drive, 40 slot > changer. > > Is the recommended setup to use two Amanda configurations, one for each tape > drive, or have I missed something in the documentation ? > > Is this supported in a single configuration ?
In 2.6.1, you could only use one drive, at all. In 3.1, you can use both drives, but Amanda still only writes one thing at a time. So, for example, you could use one drive for a recovery while a backup is occurring on the other drive. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
