On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Niall O Broin wrote:

> Hi Paul,

Hi Niall..

Do i know you from somewhere? :)

>       I just had a thought

careful.,. :)

> at the moment you could fudge that I think by using the FILE:
> device. 

sort of. however, i dont want to do the same backups twice.

> Amanda does backups to disk by using the FILE: device in a very
> similar manner to a tape drive. You'd have a process which watched
> the FILE: devices data directory and took files from it as soon as
> they appeared and wrote them to two separate tape drives.

possible, but i'd rather not touch the existing "to tape" backups too 
much. i'd prefer to have my tape backups happen and somehow also "do 
other things with the data".

now.. if amanda had some kind of 'post-dump' config option, and could
be guaranteed to write holding files for all dumps. (however, looking
at driver.c - it seems amanda will try send the last few dumps
straight to tape.)

> OK - that's the science - the rest is just engineering.

indeed.

> Kindest regards,
> 
> 
> Niall  O Broin
> 
> P.S. Of course this is a kludge, no, sorry, it's a KLUDGE but if you're in a 
> hurry for this functionality . . . .

not in a hurry, but i cant really spend lots of time hacking on amanda 
either.

regards,
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