Arne,
I think AMANDA will do what you want in the next version, which was under
development last I heard (January). You might want to subscribe to
amanda-hackers and also search the amanda-hackers archive for 'tapeio'. IIRC
the plan was/is to allow AMANDA to back up to a file as if it were a tape.
The rest of the configuration you describe is doable now, with multiple
AMANDA configurations on each system. (One to back up clients, one to back
up another backup system, one to go to tape, etc.) John Jackson is on this
list regularly and probably has a much better idea of the state of that
code.
Good Luck,
Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arne Kloecker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 8:46 AM
> To: Olivier Nicole
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Is Amanda what i want to use ?
>
>
> Hello Oliver,
>
> On Wednesday , 30. May 2001 13:57 Olivier Nicole wrote:
>
> > Wow, is there any 10TB tape available yet?
>
> I don't think so. As i wrote we want to work without tapes
> and instead use
> IDE-RAIDs. As one PC can hold 2 RAIDs with up to 1.44 TB we
> will have a
> least 7 PCs providing diskspace for backup. As far as our
> calculations go so
> far (we still calculate as we try to compare it against a lot
> of tape-systems
> ;-) IDE-RAIDs are cheaper than tapes.
>
>
> > I think it is a bit too ambitious for Amanda (load balancing, cross
> > location...).
>
> Load-Balancing is a "would be nice" and not a must.
> Cross-location was meant
> in a way that we have 3 separate Amanda installations, each
> in a different
> locations. System A at location A will backup the clients on
> location B and
> the system on location B; system B on location B will backup
> clients at C and
> System A, and so on. Should be no problem for any software. I
> just mentioned
> that in fact it might matter that it is possible to split up
> the system into
> 3 (or more) smaller chunks.
>
> And as i said: if Amanda can only provide a base for what we
> want, there is
> still the option to enhance Amanda (if it is not too much
> work or completely
> out of reality), as there is a budget to buy a software. And
> if you know what
> a licence for Networker (50 Clients, 2 Storange Nodes, ...)
> costs, you know
> what we could pay a programmer ;-)
>
> Yours
> Arne Kl�cker
>
