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Re: parallel tape usage/ RAIT or what else?

2004-03-30 09:32:21
Subject: Re: parallel tape usage/ RAIT or what else?
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:28:47 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 at 12:52pm, Brian Cuttler wrote

> My understanding that no single client should be asked to reply to
> more than one server (at any given time) still holds though
> ie: all of the disks on client A should be sent to the server 2
>     never: some DLE on client A to server 1 and some to server 2.

Yep.

> There is no way at the moment to configure a single amanda server to
> write to two drives concurrently ? Meaning, balance the DLE being 
> written to each of the two jukeboxes/drives so that I could utilize 
> both tape drives concurrently, not mirroring the tapes but one writing
> DLE A,B,F,G and the other C,D,E,H, as they complete ? Or I guess an 
> equiv would be a single jukebox with two active tape drives ?

The only way to do that (that I know of) is to run two configs 
simultaneously.  I don't think there's a way of doing that with one 
config.

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

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