Tapeless backup? Wheres the howto! the man pages! HELP!!

[Joe Young]

Joseph Young Involved.com   There is not much documentation in setting up AMANDA to be backuped up to a Hard Drive. I checked web sites, the MAN pages, the mailing lists. And three weeks of trying to do this on my own, I need help.   I get the errors in the logs       driver: adding holding disk 0 dir /backup/dumps size 296960     reserving 296960 out of 296960 for degraded-mode dumps     driver: start time 30.057 inparallel 4 bandwidth 2000 diskspace 296960 dir OBSOLETE datestamp 20021231             driver: drain-ends tapeq LFFO big-dumpers sssS     driver: result time 30.057 from taper: TAPE-ERROR [rewinding tape: Input/output error]     dump of driver schedule before start degraded mode: I know that this happens where a commment out tpchanger amanda.conf. I don't think that I should have "chg-manual".   HELP!!!( at the bottom are the steps that I went through)     joe      These are the steps that I followed. There are from http://www.asp.ogi.edu/~pchytil/linux/amanda/   amanda ./configure --without-client --with-index-server=server.backup.com --with-user=amanda --with-group=amanda --with-config=Involved --with-tape-server=server.backup.com --with-tape-device=file:/backup --with-gnutar=/bin/tar --with-gnutar-listdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda/gnutar-lists --with-amandahosts --with-buffered-dump --with-assertions --with-debugging=/var/log/debug --enable-shared if you are going to use samba you have to add two following options: --with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient --with-samba-user=backup and create /etc/amandapass file with umask 400, containing path to winPC (//vega/c) + password for backup("blable") make make check make install mkdir /var/log/debug chown amanda.amanda /var/log/debug  mkdir /usr/local/etc/amanda mkdir /usr/local/etc/amanda/gnutar-lists mkdir /usr/local/etc/amanda/Involved mkdir /usr/local/etc/amanda/Involved/curinfo mkdir /usr/local/etc/amanda/Involved/log mkdir /usr/local/etc/amanda/Involved/index touch /usr/local/etc/amanda/Involved/disklist touch /usr/local/etc/amanda/Involved/tapelist touch /usr/local/etc/amanda/Involved/exclude chown -R amanda.amanda /usr/local/etc/amanda touch /etc/amandates chown backup /etc/amandates chgrp backup /etc/amandates vi /etc/inetd.conf  and add following lines   amandaidx stream tcp nowait bin /usr/local/libexec/amindexd amindexd amidxtape stream tcp nowait bin /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped amidxtaped   My amanda.conf has this   runtapes 1              # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump #tpchanger "chg-manual" # the tape-changer glue script #tapedev "/dev/null"    # the no-rewind tape device to be used #rawtapedev "/dev/null" # the raw device to be used (ftape only) tapedev "file:/backup/"   changerfile "/var/log/amanda/Involved/changer" #changerfile "/usr/adm/amanda/DailySet1/changer-status" #changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer.conf" changerdev "/dev/null"   tapetype HP-DAT         # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes below) labelstr "^Involved[0-9][0-9]*$"