--On Wednesday, April 10, 2002 13:56:02 -0500 "Marc W. Mengel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Juanjo wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is it possible to run amanda "without-tapes" so it dumps only to holding >> disk? >> But what I mean is not to take off the tapes physically but disabling tape >> writing. I want to accumulate incrementals worth a week and flush them on >> friday to a tape... >> >> How can I do such a thing? > > Put /dev/null in for your tape device when running the amdumps, then > set it to a real tape and do an amflush. > Wasn't there a comment on this list before about using something non- existent (like /dev/nosuchdevice) instead of /dev/null because amanda was somehow 'aware' of /dev/null and would perform backups differently? You could just not have the correct tape in the drive and amanda will keep accumulating the backups in the holding disk. Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
