Amanda-Users

Re: Has anyone suceded in configuring both virtual and physical tapes with RAIT?

2006-03-26 19:23:47
Subject: Re: Has anyone suceded in configuring both virtual and physical tapes with RAIT?
From: stan <stanb AT panix DOT com>
To: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:06:45 -0500
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 12:54:25AM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> stan schreef:
> >On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 11:28:20PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> >>stan schreef:
> >>>I've heard rumors that some people may have been able to get Amanda to
> >>>backup to both virtual tapes, and physical tapes in the same config 
> >>>(using
> >>>RAIT I would assume).
> >>>
> >>>If anyone has this working, I'd like to hear about it. It looks like it
> >>>should be possible, but I really don't want to reinvent the wheel here, 
> >>>if
> >>>someone else has already got it working.
> >>My experiences are summarized here:
> >>
> >>  http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Rait
> >>
> >A couple of questions if you don't mind.
> >
> >1. Did you make your virtual tapes the same size as your physical tapes?
> >2. If not, what did your tapetype look like?
> 
> Amanda stops writing to a tape when one of the tapes gives EOT.
> So normally, you make them both the same size.

Thanks, so I'll resize my virtual tapes to 400G each,which is what my
tapes are. 

Thanks.

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