On Friday 11 May 2007, Paul Bijnens wrote: >On 2007-05-11 14:36, Donofrio, Lewis wrote: >> Yes that sounds about right, I thought rait required like devices to >> stripe to? > >It's not the first time people are pleasantly surprised by the >power of the amanda backup programs :-) > > >From the wiki page, I mentioned: > >RAIT with only two drives, creates a perfect copy of the data: a mirror >of your backup. Each of these mirrors is be handled by its own output >driver: one of the mirrors can write to a real tape device, and the >other mirror can write a virtual tape (vtape) using the "file" driver. >The vtapes can be used for fast recovery, and the tapes can be stored >offsite. > >>> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Rait
Thanks Paul, I was not aware of that ability since I don't use tapes at all anymore, I hadn't been paying attention. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The horror... the horror!
