>Is there any option to switch amdump only to dump to the (large
>enough) holding disk?
>We have the problem that our tape drive (Onstream ADR-50) has a
>frimware problem, as recognized by some people in this group, so
>that the normal way which amdump uses to write to teh tape, produces
>hardware errors, when reading the tape.
>The firmware has problems with the large breaks between writing
>different tape blocks, which is an usual feature of amanda.
>
>So I thought of
>1. using amdump to produce the holding disk
>2. after amdump has completely finished writing to the holding disk,
>to use amflush to save the whole thing on tape. This should work,
>because in this case the tape is written in one large amount without
>any break.
>
>Walter Willmertinger, Germany, Muenchen
>
>P.S. A idea I have is to change the amanda.conf by a sed or ed-
>script for the amdump, and after amdump, change it again to allow
>writing to tape?
