Thomas Widhalm schrieb:
> I removed all tapes from the config. I just save to the holding disk. I
> can live with the daily "tape error", but I want amanda to do less full
> backups.
>
>> ||
>> || holdingdisk hd1 {
>> || comment "main holding disk for IS"
>> || directory "/data/amanda/IS"
>> || use -1
>> || chunksize 2 Gb
>> || }
>> ||
>> ||
>> || tapedev "/dev/null"
>> || tapetype DEC-TZ89
>>
>> Is your DEC tapedrive really attached to the null device?
>> Doesn't work very well that way does it? :))
>
> It is disconnected from the server as it produced some driver problems
> recently. So we switched to backup to the holdingsdisk.
Why not switch to backup to file-based virtual tapes?
Why ignore errors if you could choose a setup without errors?
Have a look at http://www.amanda.org/docs/howto-filedriver.html for an
overview.
If you have sufficient disk-space, this is the better solution as long
as you don't want to use physical tapes.
Stefan.
