On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 July 2002 14:36, robinsom wrote: > >TR-4 drives seem to be acquirable in the $35-$50 range, has anyone > >tried to stripe multiple tape drives together, do RAID with tape > >drives so that five eight gig tapes is presented as say one 40 > >gig tape to Amanda ? Promise puts out a controller supported > >from the 2.2.19 kernel on for ATA-100 drives which plugs into > >a PCI slot and using one IRQ adds two drive channels to the > >system for around $30. Maybe over time I could acquire a > >second, third... fifth TR-4 eight or ten gig drive. Five > >tapes per full backup is still fairly reasonable depending > >on the tape size. > > AFAIK, the striping only works with hard drives, but amanda can do I believe Mark Mengel already hacked RAIT (i.e. Tape RAID) into amanda. I haven't tried it so I can't personally report on how complete it is or how well it works. ChangeLog says it's in 2.5 and 2.4.2-multitape. -Mitch
