On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:22:06PM -0500, Jeffrey S. Auerbach wrote:
> Hello
> I am still waiting on the delivery of our tape drive. For now I'd like
> to run AMANDA without a tape device. According to the docs, this can be
> done but I am encountering some errors when I run amdump.
>
> 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.
>
Don't use /dev/null.
This is for internal testing of Amanda only and really "backs up" to
/dev/null. tapedev and tapetype don't matter, otherwise. You can
safely use the real device (accessing /dev/nst0 under Linux behaves
like a real drive with no tape inserted, i don't know FreeBSD) or
something nonexistant like /not/found/tape
You have to set reserve in your amanda.conf to something below 100%
When your tape drive arrives, you can run amflush.
Ciao
Dietmar
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