On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 at 2:11pm, Bryan J. Smith wrote > 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. Again, replicating the on-disk backups onto tape would, at this point, be a manual process. Code contributions are welcome. ;) -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University