Thanks for your replies.

Wow - you guys confuse me!  :)

Ermmm...ok.  Part of my problem is that I have one humongously huge DLE, and 
several smaller ones.  And there has been some resistance to my suggestions 
that the one massive DLE be split up on disk.  I'm now pretty much at a stage 
where very soon any full dump of this single DLE will require two tapes in 
itself.  So I don't think I'll realistically be able to never have any DLE span 
two tapes...

On the other hand, that won't really be a problem to me, unless I find myself 
in a situation where one tape drive dies and I can't do restores of DLEs split 
across multiple tapes.

I'm hoping that, if I understand Dustin's reply correctly, that it will work.  
I'll switch off one tape drive tomorrow and test it.

Thanks very much.  Wouldn't have been able to get this done without your kind 
advice.

Johan

-----Original Message-----
From: djmitche AT gmail DOT com [mailto:djmitche AT gmail DOT com] On Behalf Of 
Dustin J. Mitchell
Sent: 25 June 2008 15:35
To: Johan Booysen
Cc: amanda List
Subject: Re: Amanda 2.6.0 spanning

If you give amrecover a specific tape drive to use, then it will
prompt you to manually insert the correct tapes.

If you configure chg-multi with only one tape device, though, then it
will not prompt you -- it will just inform amrecover that it can't
find the requested volume.

So I'd recommend the first option.

Dustin

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