On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 at 9:45pm, Dan Barnes wrote > Has anyone out there successfully configured amanda to backup to a spare > hard drive without backing up to tape?
You have two options: 1) Use version 2.4.2p2, and set your tape device to something like /dev/no/such/device (*not* /dev/null). Amanda will go into "degraded" mode and leave all the backups on the holding disk. You'll need to set your reserve to something low to make sure there's room in the holding disk for level 0s. 2) Use version 2.4.3bN (note that the b stands for beta), which has a file: driver you can use for tapedevice. This lets you use files on disk as if they were tapes. You can even define multiple "tapes" and a virtual "changer". This would, e.g., allow you to use 650MB "tapes", and then burn those images to CD. Details on how to use the file driver are in the amanda(8) man page shipped with 2.4.3bN. Good luck. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
