What I did here is not the second drive with the changer at all -- I change that tape by hand twice a week, and use it to generate an archival level-0 backup (stored in the tape safe) for long-term storage. I can use the tapes in the changer (on drive 1) to restore any file system to any day in the previous 20 days (since I have a 20-slot changer) and then can restore to one-week granularity for any week in our tape safe (which goes back two years).
I know it's not using both tape drives WITH the changer exactly, but it works well for our needs. -Ed > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Lin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 27 February, 2002 08:02 > To: Eric Trager; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Resolved - Multi-tape question > > > Perhaps add another configuration, use the second drive as > your tapedev > parameter and change the first and last slot number in your > changer conf > file. So first conf will have slots 1-15 and second conf will control > 16-30. Have them backup different filesystem. Althought I > dont know if it > would work better since we can't have two copies of Amanda > running the same > changer at the same time, so backup speed wise, it's probably > the same. I > am not sure if multiple copies of amanda can run the same > time, someone > please correct me if I'm wrong. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Trager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 9:53 AM > Subject: Resolved - Multi-tape question > > > > > > Thank you to those that wrote back yesterday, especially > Don. I used the > > non-compressed device (in this case, /dev/rmt/1n), and > amanda did indeed > > write filesystems until it hit EOT and rewrote that > specific interrupted > > filesystem to the next tape. > > > > Does anyone here have a changer working with more than one > drive? The > > 30-slot StorEdge changer I'm working with has two drives > installed, and > > I'm wondering how I can best utilize both of them. > > > > - Eric > > > > > > >
