On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 at 2:41pm, Ajay Gulati wrote

>       i am a PhD student at RICE University. i need to use amanda to
> take backup on a disk rather than tape. Do i need to change anything in
> source code and recompile everything or there is some parameter which can
> be set to specify this while installing Amanda.
>       I installed Amanda followingthe normal procedure and now when i am
> running - "amcheck " ,it says "insert tape into slot 1 and press return".

You need version 2.4.3, and you need the file: output driver, which is 
described in the amanda(8) man page as well as in the list archives.

And please send usage questions only to amanda-users.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University