> >The easy way around this problem is to use holding disk(s). Disk is >dirt cheap these days. Put in enough to hold an entire night's run >and you can stream all your dumps to disk quickly. What I would like to do is use disks instead of tapes. I can buy enough disks and a removable drive bay to back up my system for considerably less than an adequate tape drive would cost (in my experience cheap tape systems like DDS are too unreliable). So then I would have a holding disk, and a bunch of removable disks which would be labelled and rotated, instead of tapes. I guess one way of achieving this would be to write a driver that looks, to amanda, like a tape device, but which actually translates all the IOCTLs into appropriate disk IOCTLs, making the disc look like a linear device. But is there an easier way? Christopher Hicks
