We recently acquired a large Sun tape library, and I have been tasked
with configuring Amanda to use it.
This library holds around 100 DLT tapes and has a single robotic arm
which serves four drives. The arm and each drive are distinct devices
on the SCSI bus. The autoloader also has a bar code reader.
I am thinking I will create four distinct Amanda configurations, one
for each tape drive, which just happen to share a changerdev. I am
hoping multiple concurrent attempts to use the changer will get
queued, as opposed to just failing...
I am also hoping to use the mtx from Sourceforge plus a recent version
of Amanda (with chg-zd-mtx) to make use of the bar codes.
Questions:
Is anybody else using Amanda on similar hardware? If so, what
does your configuration look like?
Is the barcode-to-Amanda-label database robust against multiple
concurrent readers? What about multiple concurrent writers? And
is it this support documented somewhere yet :-) ?
Thanks!
- Pat
