On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:03:23PM -0600, Josh Welch wrote:
> 
> > > tapedev "file:/backup/" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
> >
> > I've never used the file driver in production, only played with it
> > a little, but I think  this needs to be a file, not a directory. Perhaps
> > someone else can clarify this. More comments way below.
> 
> Looking at my config, I actually have no tapedev in there. This is probably
> not the recomended practice, but I've had to restore files from this system
> a number of times, so its working.


Almost forgot, new distro's of amanda have a document on
setting up a disk based configuration.

Recommended reading, particularly for the OP.

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