You could just rotate your older tapes offsite, making sure that you keep
at least a dumpcycle's worth of tapes offsite.  If you want something
easier to restore from, set up a separate config that does fulls on
everything(don't forget 'record no' or you'll confuse your regular config),
run it weekly (or however current you need), and take those tapes offsite
after each run.
  If you have two tape drives and plenty of tapes you could use the RAIT
drivers in the latest version and mirror your normal backup tapes as you
write them (has anyone actually tried this?).

Frank

--On Monday, January 06, 2003 13:18:42 -0500 David Lebel <lebel AT lebel DOT 
org> wrote:

Hi!

I'm new to Amanda;  I'm more used to "traditional" solutions like
Networker or NetBackup.  That being said, the setup I'm currently
administrating has been put in place by my predecessor and I'm wondering
if people are using Amanda in an "offsite" strategy, where there is one
"cycle" of tapes offsite (usually a few weeks old) and another cycle
residing onsite (ie. the current ongoing cycle).

My point is that I would like to be able to store a full cycle offsite
in case of a disaster so I can full rebuild all my machines without the
worries of having only partials full backups.

Any hints?

Ciao,
  ..>David

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