On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:37:36AM +0200, Montagni, Giovanni wrote:
>
>> -----Messaggio originale-----
>> Da: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT 
>> amanda DOT org] Per conto di Jean-Louis Martineau
>> Inviato: martedì 25 ottobre 2005 13.08
>> A: amanda-announce AT amanda DOT org; amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
>> Oggetto: Release of amanda-2.5.0b1
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.0b1. 
>> It is a redesign of many part of amanda.
>> 
>> The span/split patch from John Stange was ported to 2.5.0 and is integrated 
>> in this release.
> 
> This means that in 2.5.0 i can use two tape for backup without tape changer? 
> So when the end of first tape is reached, amanda eject the tape and wait for 
> the second?
> 


I believe the two capabilities are independent.

You always (well, for a very long time) could use multiple tapes
without a changer.  There is a "pseudo-changer" script, chg-manual,
that notifies the operator when it is necessary to swap tapes.

The tape span/split patch removes the restriction that the entire
image of each single DLE dump must tape to a single tape.  With
the patch activated an image that partially fits at the end of a
tape can be continued on the next tape rather than restarting from
the beginning of the image.


Your posting raises a question I don't recall addressed.  How does
the span/split patch handle the situation where runtapes is 1 and/or
no changer is specified?  Or where runtapes is N and on the Nth tape
an image doesn't fit?  I presume the last image is restarted the
next run of taper or if direct to tape that image is lost?

-- 
Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
 JG Computing
 4455 Province Line Road        (609) 252-0159
 Princeton, NJ  08540-4322      (609) 683-7220 (fax)