On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 17:22 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Vicki Stanfield wrote: > > I am setting up to transition an existing Amanda config on a Debian > > Woody Linux system with one drive to a two drive setup. I have been > > Use the chg-multi changer: it emulates a tape changer using > two or more tape drives. > > > > trying to research this and have come up with what I believe is the > > correct amanda config: > > > > > > <SNIP> > > tapedev "/dev/nst{1,2},2}" # the non-rewinding device to write > > What's that??? Evidently I wasn't paying attention when I edited my working file. I meant this:
tapedev "/dev/nst{1,2}" # the non-rewinding device to write > > > > > tapes > > > > <SNIP> > > # our tape definition > > define tapetype HP-C5683Ax2 { > > comment "DDS-4 DAT tape" > > length 16584 mbytes > > filemark 452 kbytes > > speed 2613 kbytes > > <SNIP> > > I also believe you have hardware compression on, together with > software compression. A capacity of about 16 Gbyte instead of a little > lower than 20 Gbyte is typical for those setups. > Doing hard+soft compression results in a lower tapecapacity for > most drives (all except LTO drives, AFAIK). > > Disable hardware compression. Search the list for how to do this, > as this has been discussed numerous times here. > > > > While I believe that this setup is correct, ... > > I would be amazed that amcheck did not complain :-) It hasn't yet been given the chance to. :-) Okay, so I knew that I needed to use the chg-multi changer, but I was unsure as to how. I have found some more information, but I don't know where to get the script. I saw reference to it in an example directory somewhere. I can't find it though. Vicki