On Thursday 20 April 2006 11:53, Stefano Manzi wrote: >Hi folks, from an Italian blind user of Linux and Amanda. >My first problem with Amanda is tomake backups on ordinary > hard/floppy/CD drive, instead of tapes, since my computer doesn't > have a tape drive. Would someone indicate me the procedure, or also > attach the config files or the lines to modify in amanda.conf and/or > disklist? I will be very grateful, because if I'm able to solve this > problem, then there will be a second question to ask in this list. > Many greetings from Stefano
Amanda can indeed use hard drives as a backup medium, but be aware you'll need a drive thats 2x the size of your biggest one now to make it work comfortably. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
