On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 at 1:11pm, BRINER Cedric wrote

> Does someone had never thought to use a bunch of hard disks spread over
> their own Local Network to replace the tapes.
> 
> I thought that it shouldn't be a so big hack to redirect the output of
> amflush       to a disk instead of a tape... Wihtout forgetting to also hack a
> little bit the amrecover to take the data from the HD
> 
> i think that such kind of enhancement of amanda should be envisaged
> knowing that in a close futur the price of HD's GB will be soon cheaper
> than tape's GB.
> 
> So what about it !!

Search the list archives.  There's been a lot of discussion about this.  
The capability is officially included in 2.4.3b3 (b is for beta) via the 
file: driver.  The included amanda(8) man page has all the gory details.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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