On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:57:58AM +0000, chuck.amadi wrote: > Hi Is there doc's for setting up ainternal and extrenal tape drives As > I have a DDS-4 drive and need to commission a second external drive to > backup a total of 80gb server and I would like to backup a minmum 300gb > eventually I was looking at LTO-3 but it is beyond my companies budget. > > I read a email not long ago stating whats new for version 2.5.0 and > there something about having amanda backup two tape drives which would > be ideal for my situation when the first tape drive is full it would > continue without admin intervention to the second drive. > > Please could someone point me in the right direction as my monthly > backups are nearing the full capacity of the tapes which are 20gb native > DDS-4 4mm * 150mm.
I've not used it, but ISTR that the script, chg-multi, is intended for multiple, distinct tape drives. Don't know if they can be different types or must be the same tapetype. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)