On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 04:12:52PM +0200, Edwin Hakkennes wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We are also using a big holding disk, and I would like amflush not to erase 
> the
> files on disk. That way, a restore can be done much quicker, provided that 
> the 
> harddisk is still working. Amamda seems capable of backup to disk as well as
> to tape. I would like to use both in a redundant scheme.
> 
> Does anybody have any experience with this?
> 
> (I can copy the files before flushing them, (cp -l) but then amanda doesn't 
> know about the disk-files anymore an cannot use them for a restore.

<OT curiosity>Why do you call it copying when you are making links?</OT 
curiosity>

<OT curiosity>Why does gnu cp have this obfuscating option?</OT curiosity>

Never tried it, but if you restore the links to their original names and
locations would amrestore/amrecover use them?  I'm guessing not as the
indexes would say they were on tape.

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