to add to the pie-in-the-sky amanda features:

for archiving applications, it might be useful to write the same amanda
backup set to multiple devices, not even necessarily of the same make /
model. this would allow writing identical backups to DLT and AIT, for
instance, in order to increase likelihood of restorability.

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