Re: using 2 or more tape drives for parallel writing

2014-12-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.12.2014 um 15:12 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: > On 12/17/2014 01:15 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> So the parallel taping is initiated only when there is more data than >> that? > > yes, amanda always try to fill tapes. > > You can lie to amanda and set the tape length to a smaller val

Re: using 2 or more tape drives for parallel writing

2014-12-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 12/17/2014 01:15 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 16.12.2014 um 20:43 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: What's the flush* value? Did it have enough data to fill more than one tape? Very likely not. The holding disk is ~200G which is around one tape. So the parallel taping is initiated only w

Re: using 2 or more tape drives for parallel writing

2014-12-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 16.12.2014 um 20:43 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: > What's the flush* value? > Did it have enough data to fill more than one tape? Very likely not. The holding disk is ~200G which is around one tape. So the parallel taping is initiated only when there is more data than that? Thanks! Stefan

Re: using 2 or more tape drives for parallel writing

2014-12-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's the flush* value? Did it have enough data to fill more than one tape? On 12/16/2014 02:05 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Another config-question I have: I have a server with 2 LTO-2 drives, configured as: -- tapetype LTO2-200 tpchanger "chg-multi:{/dev/nst0,/dev/nst1}" changerfile "

using 2 or more tape drives for parallel writing

2014-12-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Another config-question I have: I have a server with 2 LTO-2 drives, configured as: -- tapetype LTO2-200 tpchanger "chg-multi:{/dev/nst0,/dev/nst1}" changerfile "chg-multi-state" taper-parallel-write 2 runtapes 2 -- according to http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Write_to_Multiple_V