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 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 device is null: it will toss away parity > and do a RAIT 0 across two drives (with the overhead of the > parity calculation however). > > > > > unfortunately we dont.. so RAIT wont work. the mirror and the local > > tape backup have to be decoupled. :( > > > > How does your bandwidth compare with just doing RAIT 1 on site > and shipping the tapes offsite? If you want Amanda to write to > a tape drive off site over a low-bandwidth link then it will > be very slow and you won't really be mirroring. That remote > tape drive won't do much for you unless you can stream to it; > LTO or SuperDLT may stream at 20MBps but if your link is > only 128kbps be prepared to watch that tape drive backhitch > and shoeshine like an American blue collar laborer under the > Bush Jr. economy. > > > (either that or we have to find a rainbow with a pot of gold so we can > > buy fibre across the irish sea! :) ) > > > > The FedEx leprechauns might be satisfied with less. > > > regards, > > -- > > Paul Jakma Sys Admin Alphyra > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Warning: /never/ send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ---- > C. Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GPG Public Key ( pgp.mit.edu | finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) > "Lif is laene: eal sceaceth, leoht ond lif samod" > >
