On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:11:21PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Ralf Auer schrieb:
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> >     I'm trying to use two physical tape drives (HP Ultrium 960) with
> > Amanda. According to the manual, I could use a tape changer (e.g.
> > chg-multi) to get the job done, but that would write only to one disk at
> > a time, right?
> > 
> > I do not want to split my backup in two different configurations, so
> > maybe you know a way how to use both tapes simultaneously in one
> > configuration? I am pretty sure, it can be done, because otherways the
> > 'runtapes' option in amanda.conf would not make much sense, I think...
> > 
> > Unfortunately I did not find anything helpful about that issue in the
> > manual or the mailing list.
> > 
> > At the moment I am using Amanda 2.4.5 on Ubuntu 5.10 & FC3 but I would
> > not mind to upgrade if a newer Amanda version is needed for this feature.
> 
> RAIT:
> 
> http://www.amanda.org/docs/rait.html
> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Set_Up_RAIT_(Redundant_Array_of_Independent_Tapes)

I should have mentioned RAIT, but note that with two tape drives RAIT
will only do mirroring, not striping.

Dustin

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        Dustin J. Mitchell
        Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
        http://www.zmanda.com/