On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:35:17PM +0200, Simon Frettloeh wrote: > Hi! > > Is there a way of creating a copy or image file of the data, that's > already being backed up to tape? > > We've already got Amanda running on our system with two tape devices > running well. We'd like to produce a (encrypted) copy of the backed up > data to send it to a far away server somewhere else for more safety. > > Is this possible? > > My idea is, to backup everything to image-files instead of tape and copy > these image files later on manually to tape. Doing it like this would > provide us with the possibility to create a copy of this image. But I'm > wondering if there's any simpler way to do this.
I'm not positive, but I think a discussion a bit ago said you could use the file:driver in combination with the rait:driver to do mirrored backups to tape and disk. Anyone doing this? You could then encrypt and ship the disk copy. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
