On Thursday 23 January 2003 15:12, Scott Mcdermott wrote:
>docs/RAIT says two things that I'm confused about:
>
>   - "[RAIT supports only 3 or 5 drive configurations.]"  I have
> four drives and no capacity for another in my library... this
> means I should just remove one of my drives right?
>
>   - "currently it is only integrated with the chg-manual script."
> Ok this means I have no hope of using my library automatically
> (eg, as I could with chg-mtx if not using RAIT) ?
>
>I'm also curious about a couple of things:
>
>   - is there a source tree more recent than 2.4.3b4 (which is
> from last August?) that I might be able to pull from? This RAIT
> stuff appears to be a little bleeding edge and I want to be sure
> to have the code with all the latest bugfixes...

Goto the amanda.org web page, and quite a ways down the page you'll 
find a link that says something like latest snapshots *here* which 
is a umontreal.edu address.  You'll find both 2.4.3 and 2.5.0 
there.  I'm currently running the one dated 20030117 without any 
problems here.

Bookmark it, you'll need it again if you want to stay up with the 
rest of us that like to run the bleeding edge stuff. And make a 
script out of your configuration options so you can re-create them 
for every new version & there won't be any surprises when you 
update it.

>   - is anyone using RAIT in a production environment?
>
>   - with just the tapes and no Amanda, is it possible to
> "destripe" a RAIT set or otherwise get at the data?
>
>   - is there a 2.5 tree somewhere with additional features?
>
>Thanks.
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