Hi!

> I am using amanda to back up to a hard disk on my system and would
> like to protect the backed up disk from accidental erasure.  I thought
> one way to do this would be to mount it then run amdump, and then umount it.
> The disk is going to be vulnerable during the backup period, but "safe"
> when not doing a backup or recover.  
> 
> Is there a way to do this?  

Instead of just running amdump from crontab, run something to a tune of:
mount /backupdisk && amdump YourConfig && umount /backupdisk
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* I used to be indecisive but now I'm not sure.