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Re: Using a disk cartrige as a tape device in Amanda
2008-10-15 09:26:24
Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
Hello
Is it possible to use something a hard drive cartridge like this
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pvaul_rd1000?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
as a "real" tape device in Amanda ? ( Not vtape )
I was wondering if there are physical properties of a hard drive which
prevent it from being used like a tape.
They *are* different.
One is a sequential device and one is a random access device. The
drivers are different. A drive, even a removable drive, simply is not a
tape.
The vtape is an Amanda innovation that allows you to do backups with a
dump cycle to a series of drive partitions, directories, removable
drives, as though they were tapes. It's a sort of glue between Amanda
and the actual device drivers. What's not to like about that?
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