On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:48:36AM -0000, Keith Hall wrote: > > Just wondering if RAIT would allow 'RAIT 1' type thing where you can write > > two tapes at the same time (one goes offsite, for example). At the moment we > > have to run a loopy dd script to copy the original tape.. > > > > How does Amanda deal with tape labels with RAIT then, does it check if both > > tapes are correct? > > Add-on question. > > How does the index deal with mirrored tapes. If one of the pair is overwritten > or amrm'ed, does the index still know about the other tape? Does this imply the > index is 2x the size for a mirror'ed arrangement?
The pair of tapes (or triple of tapes, etc.) is one logical tape to amanda when it is doing RAIT. If it is done as a two-drive stripe, then both tapes are identical -- they have the same label on them, etc.
