Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 09:32 -0400 on Sep 12, 2008: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a mechanism in Amanda to ensure that only a single tape > > changer process is running at any given time? > > No -- and this poses a problem for processes that want to move data > between devices. I'm working on such a process, and for that reason > I'm working on an overhaul of the changer API at the moment. The key > problem with the existing API is that it has no way to indicate that a > process is finished with a device, and that the changer can load a new > volume into that device.
I use lockf(1) in a wrapper script to protect accesses to a resource where amanda (currently) does not.
