Sorry. Must have been sleeping.

Using changers with RAIT isn't easy. Luckily I had written my own
changer program[me] to make multiple changers appear as one to
Amanda (which only understands one), and it was pretty easy to
modify that to support RAIT. It also fakes a bar code reader, so 
Amanda does a search for, say, rait-2-23, and the changer
code loads the five tapes that make up the RAIT.

If anyone wants to try running multiple changers, I can send a copy
of the hack, er I mean code.


Nik



>>> Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> 06/25/03 12:11PM >>>
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:35:24AM -0400, Nicholas Berry wrote:
> Good point :).
> 
> Another solution is RAIT. I back up to five Exabyte EXB10e units as
a
> RAIT.
> 
> I get 20GB max. image size using 5GB tapes, and multiple tapes per
run
> too.

That's nice to hear.  It is a good use for RAIT.

You must have been a non-responder to the recent survey
as zero responders said they used RAIT.

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