> Jean-Louis has been hard at work putting together support for multiple > simultaneous writes to different tape devices. This means, for > example, that if you have a changer with two tape drives, you can > write different dumps to both of those drives at once.
This sounds great. Might this also support the ability to have multiple changers active at the same time? As our backup sizes have grown we've thrown more tapes at the problem recently rather than increase the capacity of the tapes. (Yes, this is a loosing proposition, but it is where we are right now.) We have two changers full of tapes, and it would be breat if a single amdump run could handle both changers at the same time. But it will still be realy nice to be able to write to multiple drives in a single changer at the same time. Handling multiple changers would just be some extra icing.
