I've found a SAN device that would do both virtual tape libraries in various formats as well as tape output. Any device that's "iscsi aware" can see this unit on the network and move data to either the tape library or an actual tape. It would really be neat if Amanda could write to the virtual disk and the tape.
My problem is the "iscsi aware" factor. As I understand this, Free BSD's iscusi driver or interface is still in the development or beta stage. I think the right way is to have the underlying OS provide an iSCSI client so that the SAN appears as a disk/tape/whatever. It seems messy to put this into amanda.
