On Jan 17, 2001, Joi Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Amanda will use either gnu tar, samba, or your platform's
> native dump utility. It's those items which have to talk to your tape.
But those will only write to a network socket. It is Amanda's taper
that interacts with the tape device. But that's done through a
standard operating system interface, namely, read and write :-)
So the question is whether the OS supports the tape device.
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