Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> 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. The ability to make verification and restores -- the two most overlooked details of off-site backup -- are what make VTL systems/approaches most lauded. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)