Thread: Labeling Problem

After giving up, taking a breather and re-trying I found the issue. The HP tape library has 2 tape drives, I was talking to drive 2 and it was putting tapes into drive 1. So that brings up a follow-up question.. Does anyone have a working dual tape drive configuration? Thanks -Mike

I don't know the direct answer to that, but if you look at http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda-changers.7.html and scan down to the middle where it talks about chg-rait, it mentions having two different chg-zd-mtx changers that access different tape drives. You might be able to figure something out from that. It could lead to a variety of other complications and confusion around Amanda's planner figuring out what tapes to use and so...

Chris's suggestion is a good one, but rememeber that RAIT *stripes* (or mirrors) across drives, so while it will use both drives simultaneously, it will not schedule them separately. Also, chg-zd-mtx will probably collide with itself; that is, it will try to load a tape into drive 1 while already loading a tape into drive 0. Chg-robot, in the next release, does a better job.

Chris's suggestion is a good one, but rememeber that RAIT *stripes* (or mirrors) across drives, so while it will use both drives simultaneously, it will not schedule them separately. Also, chg-zd-mtx will probably collide with itself; that is, it will try to load a tape into drive 1 while already loading a tape into drive 0. Chg-robot, in the next release, does a better job.

I don't know the direct answer to that, but if you look at http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda-changers.7.html and scan down to the middle where it talks about chg-rait, it mentions having two different chg-zd-mtx changers that access different tape drives. You might be able to figure something out from that. It could lead to a variety of other complications and confusion around Amanda's planner figuring out what tapes to use and so...