Thanks for the suggestion.  I suppose I would also have to do
this when using my "amcheck" in user backup's crontab.

I'll try this out...

I also saw the previous suggestion to try not even mounting 
my /backup disk, that would be cool, but I don't see how I
could set up my tapelist to do this....

Scott

Toomas Aas <toomas.aas AT raad.tartu DOT ee> said:

> 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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> Toomas Aas | toomas.aas AT raad.tartu DOT ee | 
> http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/
> * I used to be indecisive but now I'm not sure.
> 



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