Hey there,

Thanx you guys for the feedback.
I will build a test setup using RAIT with vtapes and mirroring, it looks
like a cool solution

I have one more question:
Do I have to make the vtapes a large as the real tapes? I though it
wouldn't just be wise but mandatory... But even wiser to ask you guys ;)


gr,
\Wrrr.



On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 23:53 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Wrrr10-G schrieb:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I was wondering the following:
> > 
> > Is there a simple way to hack holding.c so the dumps are kept in the 
> > holdingdisk after amflush has finished streaming to tape?
> > 
> > I would like to hang on to these dumps for a while for fast restores.. 
> > but still have the tape for archiving purposes. I am aware that this 
> > greatly resembles an item on the wishlist:
> > "Keep files on holding disk after taped, that will permit faster 
> > recovery because they will be from holding disk, these dump will be 
> > erased when the same is needed for newer dump."
> > but 'managing' the dumps myself would work fine for me.
> > 
> > If this is not the place to ask such questions about Amanda's 
> > functionality please tell me, and I will not bother you with it again.
> > 
> > 
> > thanx for your time,
> 
> Seems like you would really appreciate the VRAIT-setup Paul suggests:
> 
> Write stuff to physical AND vtapes in parallel ... (not exactly keeping 
> files/dumps in holdingdisk, but anyway ... the result is the same)
> 
> Dig wiki.zmanda.com for details (until Paul hops in).
> 
> Stefan