I have seen previous articles about using hard drives for backup by
tweaking the "reserve" percentage for the holding disk. I guess that I
can also have my backup script write some king of label on the disk to
prevent overwrites of the wrong disk. My question is, does this rotate
the tape list, if not how do I cleanly get amanda to believe that that
my backups made it onto a tape? Given the relative costs of a tape drive
and a bunch of backup tapes versus a whole bunch of big cheap removable
IDE drives, the latter option is looking very attractive. Are there any
current directions in amanda development to provide support for this
kind of setup?
Hopefully some backup hardware manufacturer may in future sell sell a
system comprised of hot plugable disk mechanisms with little or no
electronics and a drive bay with the supporting electronics. The
economics of this look quite good at the moment. Any thoughts on this??
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