Why everybody try to find a workaround, --no-taper is designed exactly
for what Matt want.
We should try to find why it doesn't works for Matt.
Matt, post more informations.
Did it work if you run it from command line?
Is it amanda or cron that doesn't work?
Jean-Louis
On 11/16/2011 05:34 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
The message 'but it doesn't seem to do much of anything' is not really
useful.
What are the error in the email report?
Jean-Louis
On 11/15/2011 04:10 PM, Matt wrote:
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.
I've got two entries in cron under the amanda user (amandabackup)
0 9 * * * /usr/sbin/amdump --no-taper dell
0 2 * * * /usr/sbin/amflush -b dell
