On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 11:11:11PM -0700, Don Wolski wrote: > At 11:58 AM 5/28/02 -0500, Nick Russo wrote: > >I'd like to keep all the dump images on disk even after they > >get written to tape. My reasoning is that a large percentage > >of the restore requests I get from my users could be satisfied > >by files from the last day or two. > > Another reason for retaining dump images would be to make a second backup > tape in case writing one of the tapes is to be it's last use before errors > occur, and so that one copy could be kept off-site (in case the disaster > that destroys your disks also destroys your tape copies kept on-site).
Skyblue thinking. Wouldn't this be just the level 0's you'd want retained? At least that is my antiquated impression of off-site archiving. > So I would add to Nick's question, can the retained dump images be taped a > second time, hopefully in a way that allows amanda to record the fact that > the images exists on two different tapes. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
