On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:46:36AM +0100, Owen Williams wrote:
> Hello,
>   Its probably too wacky but has anyone tried setting up DRDB
> (http://www.drbd.org/) or similar combined with disks instead of tapes
> to create a simultaneous offsite backup?
> 
> >From the DRDB site: DRDB can be seen as 'Network RAID 1.'
> 
> A colleague and I are thinking of getting two large RAID arrays
> keeping one in his machine room and one in mine in different
> buildings.  Then split them in two with DRDB running in pairs on the
> four partitions.
> 
> Is there another device in Amanda to do the same thing?
> 

Amanda has a FILE driver to allow backups to disk rather than tape.
Amanda has a RAIT driver to allow multiple tapes to be either strips
or mirrors.

I've not heard of it being attempted, but perhaps you could
RAIT mirror some virtual tapes using the FILE driver.  One
reflection could be on each RAID device.

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