On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 05:33:55PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > 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.
The last time I tried to use "RAIT" I was told it was deprecated and should use vaulting. I have a limited experiencie with vaulting where one copy was on vTapes on disk and a second copy was on S3, that I can share. > > > jon Kind regards Jose M Calhariz > > > > > > > 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 <<< > -- -- "A perda das vidas será irreversível." -- Dan Quayle, ex-vice-presidente americano
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