Amanda-Users

Re: two separate drives to make changer

2004-12-30 14:32:04
Subject: Re: two separate drives to make changer
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Graham Wooden <graham AT g-rock DOT net>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:26:47 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 at 1:57pm, Graham Wooden wrote

> I have two external scsi tape devices (DLT 35/70 and a VXA 33/66) that I would
> like to attempt to make a cheap changer if you will or possibly just assign
> certain clients to a particular drive.  Does anyone have any quick how-tos or
> sample docs on either of the above?  I see a definition of "chg-manual" in the
> TAPE.CHANGERS doc, but not sure how to move forward with that.
> Amanda is running just fine with a set of clients connected to the first 
> drive,
> but I need to introduce more clients which will require me to invoke the 
> second
> drive ....

You can run two configs simultaneously on the same server *as long as* no 
1 client is in both.  That makes what you're trying to do very, very easy.

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