On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, C. Chan wrote:

> Also Sprach Paul Jakma:
> 
> Depending on your network bandwidth you may be able to use remote
> mirroring of the holding disk with iSCSI or another IP block device
> channel. iSCSI can also do char devices, and Amanda 2.4.3 can do
> RAID 1 tape mirroring with the RAIT driver.

ooh wow. RAIT can do RAID1 aswell as RAID3 (or is it 4?)? yippee!

> So you can maintain a local backup stream and a remote mirrored
> backup stream at the same time. If you have enough bandwidth.

unfortunately we dont.. so RAIT wont work. the mirror and the local 
tape backup have to be decoupled. :(

(either that or we have to find a rainbow with a pot of gold so we can 
buy fibre across the irish sea! :) )

regards,
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