Re: Making two copies of a backup -- CONCLUSION

2004-02-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:01:21PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: > I want to make two identical copies of an Amanda backup. > > I have enough holding-disk space to hold all of the client's DLEs > at once, so what I'm thinking is this: > > 1. Build a new Amanda configuration that backs up only the

Re: Making two copies of a backup

2004-02-10 Thread JC Simonetti
New Amanda conf -> yes Hardlink HD and so on -> no (quite dirty / heavy solution; in France we call that "using a power hammer to crush a fly") I think about 2 solutions: 1. RAIT that would allow you to point 2 different tape devices to write onto 2. if you're using 'disk' driver, you may find so

Making two copies of a backup

2004-02-09 Thread Eric Siegerman
[I'm CCing amanda-hackers because the answer to my question might depend heavily on Amanda internals; but the discussion doesn't belong there, so please reply to amanda-users.] I want to make two identical copies of an Amanda backup. This is a one-off thing -- archival backups of a client that's