Multiple tape servers

Dear list

With our Amanda setup, we've got two tape autoloaders attached to twoseparate servers. I had initially tried to run both autoloaders on 1server, but they were giving me a lot of trouble so we went with twoseparate servers. They're both Ultrium 2 tapes and the one autoloaderhas 8 tapes and the other has 16 tapes (and happens to have a barcodescanner). We've been running both basically independently, one backingup some hosts the other backing up the rest. But our backups have grownsuch that the 8 tape system is keeping data from a much shorter periodof time. As it stands now, I'm just going to rebalance which hosts arebacked up to which server and will probably have to do so again in 3-6months...

So I was wondering if it's possible to have roughly 1 amanda serverfeeding backups to two tape hosts giving us logically a 24 tape pool towork with rather than managing the two pools separately.

The other question I had was whether it is possible to split up the L0backups from the incremental backups. We are taking weekly L0 backupsand we would like to keep the L0s around longer rather than having thetapes reused by incremental backups. Could we for example, do the L0backups with our 16 tape server and the L1+ backups with the 8 tapeserver? Or, could we send the L0 backups to tape and L1+ to disk?


Thanks in advance,
 - Dominic L