On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:42:34PM -0800, Tom Simons wrote: > Can/should Amanda use an Iomeg REV drive as an output tape? > > We've got 2 servers both running RedHat AS 3.0, with 35gb & 70gb hard > drives on each, and we're intersted in running Amanda on one of the > servers to back up both (& more servers to follow). The "backup" > server has a 35gb Iomega REV drive, which RedHat sees as /cdrom2. > > Has anyone used a REV drive with Amanda?
I recently started using one to backup my systems at home (I'm running SuSE 9.1 on the Amanda server). Works fairly well. From the OS's perspective, the REV cartridge looks like a really large DVD-RAM, so for Amanda you'll need to setup vtapes on the cartridges. You might want to install udftools on the server and lay down a new UDF filesystem on the cartridges before trying to use them - I recall getting some odd behavior with virgin cartridges which went away after running mkudffs on them.
