I am interested quite a lot in making backups on two different media, like what you said disk and tape. In my case I would like to write my data on disk and disk, but with 800km between the 2 disk shelves. I don't think RAIT can handle this.
And if there's no existing solution, I don't mind developing it from scratch. Is someone interested in coding it with me? On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:55:58 -0500 Frank Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since the list has been pretty quiet lately: > > Is there a (relatively) easy way of backing up to both disk and > tape from a single config? I was thinking of using the file driver > to do backups to disk (for faster recoveries) while also using > tapes (for archiving and offsite purposes). > > Options I've considered: > > Just using the file driver and then dd'ing those to tape later. > But since I couldn't keep as many file 'tapes' around as I would > keep tapes, how would I handle recoveries of older data? Just > delete the file 'tapes' as needed, and to do a restore, first > dd the tape back to the properly named file? > > Using the RAIT driver (does it still exist?) to mirror a backup > between disk and file? How would a restore work in this case; > would Amanda expect both tape and file to be present? Could > a changer script handle the two diferent mediums? > > Two configs. It would double the backup window and I"m soaking > some WAN links too long already. > > Something else? > > My idea is to somehow use the file driver to keep a couple of > dumpcycle's worth of backups on disk, but to also have a > tapecycle's worth of tapes (which is many times dumpcycle). > Anybody tried anything similar? > > Frank > > -- > Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 > Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
