SV: Backups to disk and tape

2008-08-12 Thread Gunnarsson, Gunnar
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Peter Spikings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that possible? (because I can't see how from reading the man pages). What you're asking about is called D2D2T, and Amanda doesn't support it directly just yet, although preliminary support is a goal for the next release

Backups to disk and tape

2008-08-09 Thread Peter Spikings
Hi all, I'm going to be setting up a new Amanda config with tapes going offsite. We're going to be using 30 tapes or so. As the tapes leave straight away after being written we want to keep copies of the data written to them on disk for (say) 7 days. I've looked into using RAIT to do this

Re: Backups to disk and tape

2008-08-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Peter Spikings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that possible? (because I can't see how from reading the man pages). What you're asking about is called D2D2T, and Amanda doesn't support it directly just yet, although preliminary support is a goal for the next release

Re: Mixing backups to disk and tape?

2003-10-23 Thread JC Simonetti
I am interested quite a lot in making backups on two different media, like what you said disk and tape. In my case I would like to write my data on disk and disk, but with 800km between the 2 disk shelves. I don't think RAIT can handle this. And if there's no existing solution, I don't mind

Mixing backups to disk and tape?

2003-10-22 Thread Frank Smith
Since the list has been pretty quiet lately: Is there a (relatively) easy way of backing up to both disk and tape from a single config? I was thinking of using the file driver to do backups to disk (for faster recoveries) while also using tapes (for archiving and offsite purposes). Options I've