On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:26:54PM -0400, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone has worked out a methodology for taking data that 
> has been written to the holding disk and copying that data out to another 
> holding disk remotely before writing it to tape.  I'm using amanda 2.4.5, 
> with many 2.4.4p3 clients.  Any suggestions?
> 

I've done it manually when I was playing with amflush.
In that case I didn't copy, just made hard links in
another directory.

If space is not a problem so that you can leave the
"copy" on the same file system, links sure beat actual
copy for performance.

This is crude, but you might regularly poll with find
for any new "type f" files in the holding disk tree.
Some will be xxx.tmp that will be renamed (I think) xxx.
I'd make the link even at the .tmp stage and clean up
excess links later.

I've not used them, but some OSs have a way of notifying
an application of file system activity.  Perhaps there
is a cleaner way to use this type of facility.

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