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Re: tapless config, rotating 2 ext hard drives

2008-05-14 12:30:13
Subject: Re: tapless config, rotating 2 ext hard drives
From: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
To: mfahey AT enter DOT net
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 12:24:37 -0400
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Mike Fahey <mfahey AT enter DOT net> wrote:
> Is it possible with a tapeless config
>  to rotate 2 ext hard drives (connected to same sata port)
>  one every other week. It would be a 7day tape cycle.

Yes, that should be fine.  Put 7 vtapes on each drive, and use
chg-multi.  As long as the drives are swapped and mounted such that
tape N is online when Amanda wants it, all should work well.

You may also want to do an 'amadmin force' at the beginnning of each
week to make sure that you get level 0's on each drive.

Dustin

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