On 24 Jun 2003 at 5:10pm, Heinz-Josef Claes wrote > Am Die, 2003-06-24 um 17.03 schrieb Joshua Baker-LePain: > > On 24 Jun 2003 at 4:55pm, Heinz-Josef Claes wrote > > > > > we think about using amanda as a backup tool for Deutsche Bundestag > > > (german parliament). > > > We have some tape robots from IBM 3583 with 36 tapes and 2-6 LTO drives > > > in it. Does anybody has expirence with this configuration or > > > configuration files for this type of robot? > > > > > > The whole data volume will be 5-10 TB. > > > > > > Unfortunately I'm totally new to amanda. It would be a big help if > > > somebody could tell me, if it's possible to use amanda. > > > > If your OS can control the robot and write to the tapes, it's more than > > likely amanda can work with it. Amanda is really just a backup scheduler > > -- it uses standard *nix tools (mtx, mt, dump/tar) to actually do the > > backups. > > Sorry, I forgot! > The OS will be linux. German Parliament is migrating from NT to Linux > for the servers.
Well, it appears that mtx supports it (see <http://mtx.badtux.net/compatibility.php>), so it should work with the chg-zd-mtx changer script. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University