On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 at 3:22pm, Jeffrey S. Auerbach wrote > What values need to be entered for tapetype and/or tapedev? Currently > tapedev is /dev/null and tapetype is EXB-8500 in anticipation of our > tape device. I'd like to have my amanda.conf set for just keeping the > backups on the holding disk for now. I believe that the rest of the file > is set up correctly.
If you want to use files on the holding disk as if they were tapes, use the file: driver in your tapetype -- details in amanda(8). Or, just set the tapedev to the correct device (/dev/nst0 or whatever) -- amanda will spot that there's no drive there and dump to holding disk. You'll need to set reserve to a low number in order to get level 0s. I believe having tapedev=/dev/null just throws the backups out. > I am using version 2.4.3.b3 on FreeBSD 4.5 as I was told that I needed > to use this version in order to backup with a tape drive. That's "without" a tape drive I assume. Yes, 2.4.3b includes the tapeio functionality, the file: driver mentioned above. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
