Hi, you don't have to change anything. the actual release of manda supports the backup to disk aproach, just read the docs about the "file:" driver. If you combine it with something hotplug-manager and automount you'll get what you want quite easyly. Christoph
Mathias Koerber schrieb:
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with SATA disks becoming cheaper, it becomes very attractive to use USB2.0 connected disks as backup medium rather than tapes. The $/MB are almost even these days and are likely to go in favour of the disks with higher capacities in the future, while I do not see tape media becoming much cheaper in the long run.
That poses the question, how easy it is to use a disk as backup medium for AMANDA.
I am envisioning use several disks as follows:
Daily01: on DISK1 Daily02: on DISK2 Daily03: on DISK3 Daily04: on DISK4 Daily05: on DISK1 Daily06: on DISK2 ...
This can be accomplished by either partitioning each of these disks into several partitions with a fixed size each (to emulate a tape), one for each medium, or to just create directories and have more flexibility sizewise.
I envision that one could make a chg-script to link the 'tepdev' device to the correct partition (eg ln -s /dev/hdd4 /dev/tape for Daily04). or similar stuff for directories
What changes would be required to amtape/mt(?)/etc to support writing to partitions (raw?) or multiple files ?
Has anyone done something like this?
Mathias
