Is there any option to switch amdump only to dump to the (large
enough) holding disk?
We have the problem that our tape drive (Onstream ADR-50) has a
frimware problem, as recognized by some people in this group, so
that the normal way which amdump uses to write to teh tape, produces
hardware errors, when reading the tape.
The firmware has problems with the large breaks between writing
different tape blocks, which is an usual feature of amanda.

So I thought of
1. using amdump to produce the holding disk
2. after amdump has completely finished writing to the holding disk,
to use amflush to save the whole thing on tape. This should work,
because in this case the tape is written in one large amount without
any break.

Walter Willmertinger, Germany, Muenchen

P.S. A idea I have is to change the amanda.conf by a sed or ed-
script for the amdump, and after amdump, change it again to allow
writing to tape?