NOP
AFAIK the tapeless amanda is with 2.4.3xxx
briner

> Thanks for you suggest. Can I use amanda 2.4.2p2-7 that equip with Red Hat
> 7.3
> Thanks,
> Theewara
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "BRINER Cedric" <work AT infomaniak DOT ch>
> To: "Theewara Vorakosit" <thvo AT ksc.th DOT com>
> Cc: "_amanda" <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 8:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Can I use amanda without tape backup?
> 
> 
> > On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 09:41, Theewara Vorakosit wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >     I have 2 machines running Red Hat 7.3. I want to back up content
> > of these machines into an other machines periodically. I plan to use
> > amanda
> > but I don't have tape drive. Can I use amanda to backup into a hard
> > disk?
> > If you can't use amanda, would you please suggest me about backup
> > software.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Theewara
> >
> > I've made it work...on sun solaris  !
> > for this you have to create a folder which will be like the tape device.
> >
> > You have to use amanda-2.4.3b3  b mean BETA
> > and in the amanda.conf file
> > for the entry:
> > tapedev "file:/unige/amanda/bckp/"
> >
> > I didn't really look deep in amanda source code...but I feel that the
> > developer guys have made like a wrapper around amanda to make a
> > repertory behave like a tape.
> >
> > so In my case the repertory looks like;
> >
> > atalante:bckp 171> ls -l
> > total 28
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 obs_bkp  sys 6 Aug 16 14:45 data -> sb06_1/
> > -rw-------   1 obs_bkp  sys           11 Aug 16 15:20 info
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 obs_bkp  sys           27 Aug 12 14:41 sb01_1 ->
> > /net/obssb1/export/diskB1/1/
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 obs_bkp  sys           27 Aug 12 14:41 sb01_2 ->
> > /net/obssb1/export/diskB1/2/
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 obs_bkp  sys           27 Aug 12 14:09 sb02_1 ->
> > /net/obssb2/export/diskB1/1/
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 obs_bkp  sys           27 Aug 12 14:42 sb02_2 ->
> > /net/obssb2/export/diskB1/2/
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 obs_bkp  sys           27 Aug 16 00:43 sb03_1 ->
> > /net/obssb3/export/diskB1/1/
> >
> > in this folder the only thing that you really have to create is the data
> > link who has to point a folder on a disk with enough space to keep the
> > backup.
> >
> > The file info is created/used by amanda --> so don't pay attention to it
> >
> > and the other link like sb1_1 sb_1 are linked to HD's spread around the
> > LAN 'cause at each run we backup about 40 Gb.
> >
> > an that's it
> >
> >
> 
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