Supported Tape Drives

2005-03-19 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi All

What all Tape drives are supported by Amanda? Can I have a URL for that
or something like that 


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Re: Supported Tape Drives

2005-03-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 March 2005 04:07, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
Hi All

What all Tape drives are supported by Amanda? Can I have a URL for
 that or something like that

You are asking for the impossible, mainly because the list of 
unsupported drives is much, much shorter.  The only ones that have 
been a rather constant pain were some OnStream drives from about 5 
years back.  Virtually anything else can be used.

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Re: Supported Tape Drives

2005-03-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 02:37:44PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
 Hi All
 
 What all Tape drives are supported by Amanda? Can I have a URL for that
 or something like that 

Can dd write to it and read from it?
Can tar write to it and read from it?
Can dump write to it and read from it?
Can mt move position the tape in it?
Can mtx manipulate the changer if present?

Answer yes to the above and amanda can use it.
Note, none of those are amanda provided tools.

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