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Re: amrestore and tape changers: has it changed since 2.4.4p3?

2007-09-13 13:22:27
Subject: Re: amrestore and tape changers: has it changed since 2.4.4p3?
From: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
To: "Francis Galiegue" <fg AT one2team DOT com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:48:20 -0500 
On 9/13/07, Francis Galiegue <fg AT one2team DOT com> wrote:
> One question though: is it really the role of amrecover to drive the tape
> changer? Isn't that done on the server side? What if I decide to upgrade the
> server to the latest 2.5.x but leave clients with 2.4.x?

Yes, that's correct -- I was trying to be brief :)

That arrangement is ok, with the proviso that you can't use tape
spanning on the server, or you won't be able to recover using older
clients.  There may be more limitations -- someone else please chime
in?

Dustin

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Storage Software Engineer
http://www.zmanda.com
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