Re: Use multiple drives in tape robot

2007-06-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
--with-testing was needed with amanda 2.4.* if a client could be accessed by 2 different config at the same time. --with-testing is not needed with amanda-2.5.*, the amandad deamon allow multiple request simultaneously. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: I'll just add that you must als

RE: Use multiple drives in tape robot

2007-06-27 Thread Weber, Philip
Thanks for all the responses, pretty much confirming what I thought. I haven't done anything special with the ports yet though, & both configs seem to run together just fine, but I haven't got multiple clients involved in this config, I'm just testing out the concepts. I need to look at port rang

Re: Use multiple drives in tape robot

2007-06-26 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070626 13:49]: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 at 12:57pm, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote > > >I'll just add that you must also configure amanda such that both > >configs use different ports with '--with-testing=config1' and > >'--with-testing=config2' and add those

Re: Use multiple drives in tape robot

2007-06-26 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 at 12:57pm, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote I'll just add that you must also configure amanda such that both configs use different ports with '--with-testing=config1' and '--with-testing=config2' and add those to /etc/services like amanda-config110080/tcp amanda-config11

Re: Use multiple drives in tape robot

2007-06-26 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070626 12:32]: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 at 4:58pm, Weber, Philip wrote > > >Is it possible to have 2 configs using 2 separate drives in a tape > >robot, i.e. can they share the changer interface? I don't mean use of > >RAIT. > > > >I have successfully set

Re: Use multiple drives in tape robot

2007-06-26 Thread Ian Turner
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 11:58:00 Weber, Philip wrote: > Is it possible to have 2 configs using 2 separate drives in a tape > robot, i.e. can they share the changer interface? I don't mean use of > RAIT. The answer to your question is yes, but you must ensure that only one instance of mtx is runn

Re: Use multiple drives in tape robot

2007-06-26 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 at 4:58pm, Weber, Philip wrote Is it possible to have 2 configs using 2 separate drives in a tape robot, i.e. can they share the changer interface? I don't mean use of RAIT. I have successfully set up 1 config with chg-zd-mtx & then tried duplicating that to a 2nd config us

Use multiple drives in tape robot

2007-06-26 Thread Weber, Philip
Hi, Is it possible to have 2 configs using 2 separate drives in a tape robot, i.e. can they share the changer interface? I don't mean use of RAIT. I have successfully set up 1 config with chg-zd-mtx & then tried duplicating that to a 2nd config using chg-zd-mtx with a different set of tapes in t