Amanda-Users

Re: suggestion for a disk-to-disk backup server

2007-07-06 05:25:39
Subject: Re: suggestion for a disk-to-disk backup server
From: Paul Bijnens <Paul.Bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
To: Amanda List <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:15:34 +0200
On 2007-07-06 04:28, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> An idea for the next release of Amanda:
> 
>   Add one config parameter that says "use the device povided by the
>   tape changer" and that default to YES. So it would not break any
>   existing customized changer script.
> 
>   When set to NO, use the device explicitely defined by tapedev.

I frequently use chg-multi, with 2 physical drives, or with several
vtape-devices.
Which the "the" device in that case?


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