On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 at 2:11pm, Bryan J. Smith wrote
> Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Amanda can easily be run in a backup-to-disk-only mode.
>> And it'd be trivial to manually tape some of those images
>> for off-site storage. Doing that within amanda (i.e.
>> backup-to-tape while also leaving images on disk)
>> is a feature folks have talked about.
>
> Excellent!
>
> The question is how seemless is it? Can they stream out
> their images into a tape archive? It should be possible.
>
> What about importing back a stream from a tape archive into a
> disk image? That also should be possible.
Again, replicating the on-disk backups onto tape would, at this point, be
a manual process. Code contributions are welcome. ;)
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
