On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:57:58AM +0000, chuck.amadi wrote:
> Hi Is there doc's for setting up ainternal and extrenal  tape drives As 
> I have a DDS-4 drive and need to commission a second external drive to 
> backup a total of 80gb server and I would like to backup a minmum 300gb 
> eventually I was looking at LTO-3 but it is beyond my companies budget.
> 
> I read a email not long ago stating whats new for version 2.5.0 and 
> there something about having amanda backup two tape drives which would 
> be ideal for my situation when the first tape drive is full it would 
> continue without admin intervention to the second drive.
> 
> Please could someone point me in the right direction as my monthly 
> backups are nearing the full capacity of the tapes which are 20gb native 
> DDS-4 4mm * 150mm.

I've not used it, but ISTR that the script, chg-multi,
is intended for multiple, distinct tape drives.
Don't know if they can be different types or must
be the same tapetype.

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