On Sunday 05 February 2006 10:17, stan wrote: >I'm preparing to upgrade an existing Amanda installation. > >It's been a while since I looked at what Amanda can do, since the > existing system "just works". I'm considering using virtual tapes, in > some fashion on the new system. > >These leads me to a question (perhaps the first of several). Reading >through http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/File_driver It recommends > putting the virtual tape disk(s) on a different server than the > holding disk(s). Am I reading this correctly?
I don't think so, Stan. But it is a very good idea to have the vtapes on a seperate cable of the controller as that will speed things up quite a bit by reducing cable contention issues. I have my vtapes on /dev/hdd, with the holdingdisk area on /dev/hda. I also have a small amount of /dev/hdd as swap, again for the same reason. Ditto /var, for somewhat the same reason, and in case /dev/hda should go read-only due to an error, I still have the log entries to tell me what went toes up. And that can be worth its weight in sliced bread or bottled beer under those conditions. :) >If so, how would I access these disks? NFS seems like a slow way of > doing this. Excruciatingly, since nfs has never worked here. :( -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.