On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:01:58AM -0800, Kevin Dalley wrote:
> "Gavin Henry" <Gavin.Henry AT invsat DOT com> writes:
> 
> > If you give them all a different ips, then write a perl/python
> > etc. script that pings the machines before amcheck kicks in and then
> > the script can delete or insert a # as appropriate in the disklist:
> >
> > Or maybe not ;-)
> 
> If they have different IP addresses, then you don't really need a
> script to modify disklist.  The other OSes will just fail when amdump
> is run, and get picked up again next time.
> 
> However, this approach requires that each OS is available often enough
> in your tapecycle to have satisfactory backups.
> 
> Having everything mounted on each OS has advantages here.

Not as much as you might think.  The mount points would vary from
OS to OS so there would be a ton of DLE's, one for each FS times
the number of OS's.

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