hi, i'm just wondering is there any way to have amanda to write a backup to both a local tape device and a remote tape/filesystem?
basically, we have an amanda tape 'server', which gathers backups and writes them to tape. we'd like these backups also to go to a remote machine. we are using RedHat's amanda 2.4.2p2-4 package. options i see: - have the remote amanda machine back up the holding disk of the primary amanda however, how do we synchronise this? (the primary amanda machine would have to "hold" backups in the holding area, and wait till the secondary backup was finished before flushing to tape). - use rmt and gnu tar's support for remote devices and have amanda write the backups using gtar's remote support. however, is it as simple as specifying host:/dev/xyz for the tapedev? and again, how do we synchronise? i suspect we could psuedo-synchronise either of the above by having the original backups use the file driver, and then run a second backup, but still.. otherwise, i see the latest amanda code has a vtape driver interface, and there has been talk of writing rmt vtape interface. has anyone tried? anyway, a "remote mirror" vtape driver would be useful. As would dumptype options to run commands pre and post host-dump and tape-flush (and wait for them to finish). also, what is the latest stable code that one should use for vtape? HEAD? amanda-243-branch? regards, --paulj
