On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 05:39:09PM -0000, Scott Petler wrote:
> 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....

I think that was a misunderstanding.  If you're backing up
filesystems using dump, they don't need to be mounted.  But
you're asking about backing up *to* disk; the destination does
have to be mounted.

(Actually, perhaps one could chop a big disk into a bunch of
"tape-sized" partitions, and tell Amanda to back up to the raw
partitions by configuring chg-multi with the /dev/sdcX pathnames.
But even if you could make it work, I'm not sure it'd be worth
the bother...)

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