On Friday 11 May 2007, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>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

Thanks Paul, I was not aware of that ability since I don't use tapes at all 
anymore, I hadn't been paying attention.

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