Amanda-Users

Re: two separate drives to make changer

2004-12-30 14:40:04
Subject: Re: two separate drives to make changer
From: Graham Wooden <graham AT g-rock DOT net>
To: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:34:46 -0500
I see - so just like the default 'DailySet1' ... just do another set config
called DailySet2 ?

Thanks for the pointers!

-Graham


From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>:

> 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
>