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.

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