Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-12-03 Thread Marc W. Mengel
Yes, you can do rait:{tape:...,file:...,null:}. At the moment you still can't do nested RAIT's, but thats just a parser problem (we need to teach the code to skip nested {} braces when looking for commas...) - Marc Mengel [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, C. Chan wrote: Also Sprach

Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-12-02 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Niall O Broin wrote: Hi Paul, Hi Niall.. Do i know you from somewhere? :) I just had a thought careful.,. :) at the moment you could fudge that I think by using the FILE: device. sort of. however, i dont want to do the same backups twice. Amanda does

Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-12-02 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote: Can the second drive be a FILE:driver. If so Paul, that might be an approach? bingo... RAIT with RAID1 to tape and FILE, then all i need is to run a script once amdump is finished. (or even put it in amdump). thanks!! regards, -- Paul Jakma

Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-11-28 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Paul Jakma wrote: there was some kind of API to allow driver to launch a programme when a dump to holding disk finishes, so that i could write something to copy/etc.. the file. ie: driver: - notified that dumper X finishes

Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-11-28 Thread Niall O Broin
On Thursday 28 November 2002 09:12, Paul Jakma wrote: driver: - dump of file x finished - launches script (and registers event for when it exits) ...does all its other stuff... - wait for all tapers and 'scripts'

Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-11-28 Thread C. Chan
Also Sprach Paul Jakma: we have a disaster recovery site, and we would like somehow to get our daily backups sent over to our DR site and onto the tape library there (in addition to our local library). however, i'm stumped as to the best way to do it. I'd really like for dumps in the

Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-11-28 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, C. Chan wrote: Also Sprach Paul Jakma: Depending on your network bandwidth you may be able to use remote mirroring of the holding disk with iSCSI or another IP block device channel. iSCSI can also do char devices, and Amanda 2.4.3 can do RAID 1 tape mirroring with the

Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-11-28 Thread C. Chan
Also Sprach Paul Jakma: ooh wow. RAIT can do RAID1 aswell as RAID3 (or is it 4?)? yippee! Yes, it can. Do a search on Marc Mengel's posts on the Amanda list from about a month ago. Just list two tape drives using the rait: driver. If you list a third it will do RAIT 4, if the third tape

Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-11-28 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:44:03AM -0600, C. Chan wrote: Also Sprach Paul Jakma: ooh wow. RAIT can do RAID1 aswell as RAID3 (or is it 4?)? yippee! Yes, it can. Do a search on Marc Mengel's posts on the Amanda list from about a month ago. Just list two tape drives using the rait:

backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Jakma
hi, we use amanda extensively for backups, and are very pleased with it (thanks!). we have a disaster recovery site, and we would like somehow to get our daily backups sent over to our DR site and onto the tape library there (in addition to our local library). however, i'm stumped as to the