Amanda people: does the newer amanda have any means to dump to tape while still retaining a copy on the holding disk?
Dumping to tape, and then vaulting BACK to a disk area seems excessive, if there is a better way? Deb Baddorf (asking for Stefan Weichinger) > On Jan 15, 2019, at 1:34 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at> wrote: > > Am 14.01.19 um 19:05 schrieb Debra S Baddorf: > >> You can let the normal job send the dumps to tape, and then >> “vault” a copy back onto a “vtape” on disk (not your holding disk, >> but that’s semantics). >> That might suit your need. >> >> I’ve done vaulting from a tape onto a disk area ….. moved the >> disk area to another node, and vaulted again to copy it to a >> different flavor of tape drive. So the very first part of my task >> might suit you to a tee. > > I understand that this might work but it seems to way more steps than > having a second "storage" to flush the holdingdisk content to. If that > works (and the "storage" doesn't allow to filter the lev0 afaik). > > I haven't yet found the time and the brain to continue testing that so far.
