On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 at 6:16pm, Julien Boret wrote > I want to back up my data on the holding disk only. Every time I put a tape > in the tape drive, Amanda will first try to back up the data on the tape and > will only back up the data on the holding disk if there is no tape in the > drive or if there is a problem with the tape. > I would like to know if there is an option I can specify in the amanda.conf > file that would tell Amanda to always back up my data on the holding disk > without looking first if there is a tape in the tape drive.
If you *never* want that config to go to tape, you have two options. With 2.4.2p2, just define your tapedev in amanda.conf to be /dev/no/such/device or some such thing. Amanda won't find the device, will go into "degraded mode", and will put everything on the holding disk. With 2.4.3bN (note the b for beta), you can use files on disk as if they were tapes. Details on this are in the mailing list archives and in amanda(8) distributed with those versions. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
