Thomas Widhalm schrieb:


> I removed all tapes from the config. I just save to the holding disk. I
> can live with the daily "tape error", but I want amanda to do less full
> backups.
> 
>> || 
>> || holdingdisk hd1 {
>> ||     comment "main holding disk for IS"
>> ||     directory "/data/amanda/IS"
>> ||     use -1
>> ||     chunksize 2 Gb
>> ||     }
>> || 
>> || 
>> || tapedev "/dev/null"
>> || tapetype DEC-TZ89
>>
>> Is your DEC tapedrive really attached to the null device?
>> Doesn't work very well that way does it?  :))
> 
> It is disconnected from the server as it produced some driver problems
> recently. So we switched to backup to the holdingsdisk.

Why not switch to backup to file-based virtual tapes?
Why ignore errors if you could choose a setup without errors?

Have a look at http://www.amanda.org/docs/howto-filedriver.html for an
overview.

If you have sufficient disk-space, this is the better solution as long
as you don't want to use physical tapes.

Stefan.