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Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-12-02 05:01:33
Subject: Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)
From: Paul Jakma <paulj AT alphyra DOT ie>
To: c-chan AT uchicago DOT edu
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:14:04 +0000 (GMT)
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, C. Chan wrote:

> Depending on your network bandwidth you may be able to use remote
> mirroring of the holding disk with iSCSI or another IP block device
> channel. iSCSI can also do char devices, and Amanda 2.4.3 can do
> RAID 1 tape mirroring with the RAIT driver. So you can maintain a
> local backup stream and a remote mirrored backup stream at the same
> time. If you have enough bandwidth.

an interesting idea. i might find a use for that.

thanks!

regards,
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