On 24 Jun 2003 at 5:10pm, Heinz-Josef Claes wrote

> Am Die, 2003-06-24 um 17.03 schrieb Joshua Baker-LePain:
> > On 24 Jun 2003 at 4:55pm, Heinz-Josef Claes wrote
> > 
> > > we think about using amanda as a backup tool for Deutsche Bundestag
> > > (german parliament).
> > > We have some tape robots from IBM 3583 with 36 tapes and 2-6 LTO drives
> > > in it. Does anybody has expirence with this configuration or
> > > configuration files for this type of robot?
> > > 
> > > The whole data volume will be 5-10 TB.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately I'm totally new to amanda. It would be a big help if
> > > somebody could tell me, if it's possible to use amanda.
> > 
> > If your OS can control the robot and write to the tapes, it's more than 
> > likely amanda can work with it.  Amanda is really just a backup scheduler 
> > -- it uses standard *nix tools (mtx, mt, dump/tar) to actually do the 
> > backups.
> 
> Sorry, I forgot!
> The OS will be linux. German Parliament is migrating from NT to Linux
> for the servers.

Well, it appears that mtx supports it (see 
<http://mtx.badtux.net/compatibility.php>), so it should work with the 
chg-zd-mtx changer script.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University