On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 10:48:57AM -0500, Martin, Jeremy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm reading the "Unix Backup & Recovery" AMANDA chapter, plus I have another 
> "Linux System Administration" book that talks about AMANDA. 
> 
> However it all seems to be written assuming that AMANDA is backing up to a 
> tape drive. What do I need to do, to make AMANDA only back up the data to the 
> "holding area" but not try to flush it to tape?
> 
> Basically I'm setting up an AMANDA server to test. We do have a tape changer 
> in our production environment, but here I need to just test AMANDA by making 
> it back up to hard drive only. 
> 
> Would I use the --with-tape-device= the partition on a SCSI drive I want it 
> written to or is there a more elegant solution (or one that actually works;-)?

don't put an amanda labeled tape in the valid tape drive

override tapedev in amanda.conf with a pointer to a non-existing device

others?

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