Thanks for your replies. Wow - you guys confuse me! :)
Ermmm...ok. Part of my problem is that I have one humongously huge DLE, and several smaller ones. And there has been some resistance to my suggestions that the one massive DLE be split up on disk. I'm now pretty much at a stage where very soon any full dump of this single DLE will require two tapes in itself. So I don't think I'll realistically be able to never have any DLE span two tapes... On the other hand, that won't really be a problem to me, unless I find myself in a situation where one tape drive dies and I can't do restores of DLEs split across multiple tapes. I'm hoping that, if I understand Dustin's reply correctly, that it will work. I'll switch off one tape drive tomorrow and test it. Thanks very much. Wouldn't have been able to get this done without your kind advice. Johan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell Sent: 25 June 2008 15:35 To: Johan Booysen Cc: amanda List Subject: Re: Amanda 2.6.0 spanning If you give amrecover a specific tape drive to use, then it will prompt you to manually insert the correct tapes. If you configure chg-multi with only one tape device, though, then it will not prompt you -- it will just inform amrecover that it can't find the requested volume. So I'd recommend the first option. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
