I am trying to setup amanda on my test machine to act as the Amanda server & I want it to use a tape drive on a remote machine. I know it would be practical & advisable to install Amanda on the machine to which the tape drive is connected but I would like to test Amanda with some source modifications on my test machine & have it dump to the tape drive connected to the remote machine. I have set up rsh access for user "amanda" on the machine with the tape drive. Now the only process remaining is to setup the tape device that my amanda server will use. What tape device do I need to specify in the amanda config & if it involves using the RMT protocol, how do I go about setting up this device file on my local machine using which I can access the tape drive on the remote machine.
Your co-operation & suggestions are very much appreciated. Thanks, Ashwin.
