At Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:38:36 -0500 Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Matt <[email protected]> writes:
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>   I'm trying to run the dump during the day and then send the backup
>   to Amazon at night when it won't disturb my bandwidth. 
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> Long ago I did this by having two config files, one with /dev/missing as
> the tape, or something like that, so all works well except that opening
> the tape fails.  Then the config is swapped back to use the tape.

You don't really have to 'swap' the config.  Just call am<mumble> with
the other config -- eg:

During the day:

amdump whatever-notape ...

Then at night:

amflush whatever-amazontape

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