On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 01:45 PM, Dan Barnes wrote:
> Has anyone out there successfully configured amanda to backup to a spare
> hard drive without backing up to tape?
I've set up a system using 2.4.2p2 to backup to nfs mounted drive space
just recently. If you are able to use 2.4.3, there is a setting to save
to disk. Check the docs or the mail archives.
For 2.4.2p2--
In your configuration file (amanda.conf):
1. set tapedevice to "no-such-device",
2. set rawtapedev to "no-such-device",
3. set changerdev to "no-such-device",
4. set tapetype to DISKSAVE,
5. define tapetype DISKSAVE (this is mine, tweak as is appropriate):
define tapetype DISKSAVE {
comment "Fake tape description for save to disk"
length 1000 gbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 2000 kbytes
}
6. modify the holding disk hd1 so it points to your backup disk, and
make its "use" value to be -1 (it will use the whole space for holding),
7. set reserve to 0.
I think that covers all of the unique needs of saving to disk vs. tape.
The remaining configuration is the same as if you were using tape.
