Hi Again

When tape drive 1 (slot1) fills up I assume without any user
intervention the remainder of the data will backup onto tape drive 2
(slot2) be it external drive (Which I haven't concluded yet looking for
a minimum of 160gb media capacity!)

As version 2.5.0b1 has New tape spanning features.

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 23:14 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >>And create a new file named "chg-multi.conf" in the same directory
> >>as the amanda.conf file with this content:
> >>
> >>  multieject 0
> >>  gravity 0
> >>  needeject 0
> >>  ejectdelay 0
> >>  statefile /var/lib/amanda/daily/changer-status   # changeme
> >>  firstslot 1
> >>  lastslot 2
> >>  slot 1  /dev/nst0         # changeme
> >>  slot 2  /dev/nst1         # changeme
> >>
> >>and fill in appropriate values for your environment in the lines
> >>marked with "changeme"
> > 
> > 
> > Can the two devices be different format tapes?
> 
> No, unfortunately, because there is only one "tapetype", used for
> both of the devices.
> Of course you can use the lowest of the two capacities, or maybe
> the mean (Amanda will write to a tape until it hits the physical
> end of tape).
> 
> 
> 
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