On Thursday 28 November 2002 09:12, Paul Jakma wrote:

>       driver:
>               - dump of file x finished
>               - launches script (and registers event for when it
>                 exits)
>               ...does all its other stuff...
>
>               - wait for all tapers and 'scripts' on a file to
>                 finish before unlinking a file.

Hi Paul,
        I just had a thought - at the moment you could fudge that I think by 
using 
the FILE: device. 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.

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


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 . . . .