On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 13:01:28 -0700 Charles Curley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nope. You leave virtual tapes on the hard drive. You don't bother with > tapes at all. Ahh...but I want to continue using my LTO-2 drive and tapes. > Oh, and something I missed earlier: you can span tapes. (Defined as > sending one backup to more than one tape.) You set a configuration > value to the maximum number of tapes to span. E.g.: I allow two. Most > of the time Amanda uses one. OK. That's nice to hear. > However I have a few large DLEs. Those span two tapes when they get > a full backup. It works just fine on vtapes. Same here. Converting one old Hi-8 video tape, means >30GB of data. > With physical tapes, you would need a changer or a human attendant. Only human servant is on disposal here. :-) Sincerely, Gour -- “In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are all mental speculations…” (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu) http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: CDBF17CA
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