> I am new at using amanda. Where could I find help on using a spare disk
>drive on another machine for backup. ...
Do you mean use a disk instead of a tape?
You can do this a couple of ways. First, you can set up the disk as your
holding disk and set tapedev to "/no-such-device" (or anything else that
does not exist). Amanda will do all the dumps into the holding disk and
just never write them to tape. You also need to change the "reserve"
holding disk parameter (see amanda(8)) so it will do full dumps.
And you'll need to clean out old dumps by hand.
The other way is to get the amanda-242-tapeio CVS branch and use the
new "file:" tape driver. That lets Amanda work normally without all the
problems of only using a holding disk and treats the extra disk like a
tape. The "file:" driver is described in the version of amanda(8) you'll
get with the CVS branch. Note that this code is somewhat experimental.
>Luis.
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
