The system we have setup at work have all backups, regardless of whether
or not the tape drive is free, sent to a network holding disk before
being flushed to tape to avoid the problem of I just used a 40GB tape
to backup 2GB of data too bad I can't append new data to the tape.
The only
From what I have observed, and others on the list have told me, Amanda will
always try and fill the tape completely even if it knows it has written say
30GB, to a tapetype that is 40GB, and it sees the upcoming dump estimate as
20GB. By fill completely I mean write until the tape drive reports the
Thanks for the reply :}
chg-mtx requires a configuration file. All yours
are commented out.
Ok, I added this to my 'amanda.conf':
changerfile /usr/lib/amanda/chg-mtx
Its identity is specified with the changerfile
directive.
By identity do you mean the devicefile, /dev/sgx?
Either way, when
