On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 11:11:11PM -0700, Don Wolski wrote:
> At 11:58 AM 5/28/02 -0500, Nick Russo wrote:
> >I'd like to keep all the dump images on disk even after they
> >get written to tape. My reasoning is that a large percentage
> >of the restore requests I get from my users could be satisfied
> >by files from the last day or two. 
> 
> Another reason for retaining dump images would be to make a second backup
> tape in case writing one of the tapes is to be it's last use before errors
> occur, and so that one copy could be kept off-site (in case the disaster
> that destroys your disks also destroys your tape copies kept on-site).

Skyblue thinking.  Wouldn't this be just the level 0's you'd want retained?
At least that is my antiquated impression of off-site archiving.

> So I would add to Nick's question, can the retained dump images be taped a
> second time, hopefully in a way that allows amanda to record the fact that
> the images exists on two different tapes.

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