hi,

we use amanda extensively for backups, and are very pleased with it 
(thanks!).

we have a disaster recovery site, and we would like somehow to get our
daily backups sent over to our DR site and onto the tape library 
there (in addition to our local library). 

however, i'm stumped as to the best way to do it. I'd really like for 
dumps in the holding disk to essentially go to 2 places as seamlessly 
as possible, but i cant see how to do it.

What'd be nice is if:

        driver could support multiple 'tapedev' commands and start a 
        taper for each 'tapedev'. (ie move parsing of tapedev out of 
        taper - add mgt of multiple tapers to driver. i could write my 
        own amanda 'vtape' drivers to do the rest.)

or:

        there was some kind of API to allow driver to launch a 
        programme when a dump to holding disk finishes, so that 
        i could write something to copy/etc.. the file. ie:

        driver:
                - notified that dumper X finishes
                - launches programme
                - when it finishes, driver proceeds with deleting that
                  holding file


any thoughts? what would be simplest/best to implement? (and any 
guidance from amanda internals gurus?)

regards,
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