On 2007-05-11 14:36, Donofrio, Lewis wrote:
> Yes that sounds about right, I thought rait required like devices to
> stripe to?

It's not the first time people are pleasantly surprised by the
power of the amanda backup programs :-)


>From the wiki page, I mentioned:

RAIT with only two drives, creates a perfect copy of the data: a mirror
of your backup. Each of these mirrors is be handled by its own output
driver: one of the mirrors can write to a real tape device, and the
other mirror can write a virtual tape (vtape) using the "file" driver.
The vtapes can be used for fast recovery, and the tapes can be stored
offsite.


>>   http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Rait


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