* Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070626 12:32]: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 at 4:58pm, Weber, Philip wrote > > >Is it possible to have 2 configs using 2 separate drives in a tape > >robot, i.e. can they share the changer interface? I don't mean use of > >RAIT. > > > >I have successfully set up 1 config with chg-zd-mtx & then tried > >duplicating that to a 2nd config using chg-zd-mtx with a different set > >of tapes in the robot, and the other drive. This was successful, except > >one of the amdumps failed on the first calling saying no writable tape > >could be found; it worked on the 2nd calling so I suspect there is a > >clash with 2 configs trying to access the changer. > > I do exactly this, and have never seen a collision. I kick off the 2 > amdumps 5 minutes apart. Be sure to assign each config its own set of > slots.
I'll just add that you must also configure amanda such that both configs use different ports with '--with-testing=config1' and '--with-testing=config2' and add those to /etc/services like amanda-config1 10080/tcp amanda-config1 10080/udp amanda-config2 10081/tcp amanda-config2 10081/udp Depending on the authentication scheme you decide to use you might have to specify the udp and tcp port range so that both config don't overlap. Look for '--with-tcpportrange=' and '--with-udpportrange=' There is no provision for the access of the robotic device. At some point I had 7 config on the same robot and I had surprisingly little contention between the different amanda configs accessing the robot arm. hth jf > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University -- <° ><