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Content preview: On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Douglas K. Rand
<[email protected]>
wrote: > I have 3 AIT changers (30 slot SpectraLogic TreeFrogs) each with
2 > tape drives that right now I use with Amanda 2.6 with 3 different >
amanda
configurations to be able to use all 3 changers in > parallel. (And I'm
currently
only using 1 tape drive per changer.) > > With Amanda 3.1 is it possible
for me to setup a single Amanda > configuration to use all 3 changers in
parallel
in a round robin > fashion? (I'd rather avoid striping with RAIT.) That would
avoid the > hassle of having to tune by hand which DLEs are in which Amanda
> configuration, and make it easier for me to not miss a DLE. I think I >
see how to use multiple tape drives on a single changer with the >
DRIVE-CHOICE
property. But I don't see how to use multiple changers > with a single Amanda
config. [...]
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On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Douglas K. Rand
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have 3 AIT changers (30 slot SpectraLogic TreeFrogs) each with 2
> tape drives that right now I use with Amanda 2.6 with 3 different
> amanda configurations to be able to use all 3 changers in
> parallel. (And I'm currently only using 1 tape drive per changer.)
>
> With Amanda 3.1 is it possible for me to setup a single Amanda
> configuration to use all 3 changers in parallel in a round robin
> fashion? (I'd rather avoid striping with RAIT.) That would avoid the
> hassle of having to tune by hand which DLEs are in which Amanda
> configuration, and make it easier for me to not miss a DLE. I think I
> see how to use multiple tape drives on a single changer with the
> DRIVE-CHOICE property. But I don't see how to use multiple changers
> with a single Amanda config.
This is currently not supported, but a round-robin changer would be an
interesting addition to the suite of changers we already have. It
would be similar to the current chg-rait, but of course not producing
RAIT devices.
Perhaps you'd be interesting in adding such a thing?
Dustin
--
Open Source Storage Engineer
http://www.zmanda.com
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