On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 07:38:37PM +0000, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > 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) >
I've never used it, but ISTR amanda had a RAID feature where you could tape to multiple devices simultaneously. jon > > > > 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. >>> End of included message <<< -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)
