I'm doing backups to disk on my debian box. It is quite easy: Basically
you have to setup a spec. tapeless tapetype (DISKSAVE in my case) and give
it as the tape device to amanda. I've attached my amanda.conf for your
reference.

I cannot help with the ide-rack system.

Regards,

Zoltan


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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, R.M. Evers wrote:

> hi everyone,
>
> i'm new to this list, so please be kind if i'm asking something that has
> been asked for a thousand times already. but this list seems to be the
> best place to ask :-)
>
> we are running a small ISP, and i've been using amanda for backups for
> quite a while now and never ran into trouble. it really is a fantastic
> backup system. backup media has been dds tapes.
>
> not too far from now, we are going to move all our servers to a
> datacenter, which made me decide to buy a brand new rackable
> hot-swappable ide-raid1 system to do the backups. debian is my OS of
> choice. my questions are directed to those who have any experience with
> this kind of setup. so, it boils down to this:
>
> - is amanda easy to configure to dump to harddisk instead of tapes?
> - is there some kind of 'ready-to-go' rackable hot-swappable ide-raid
>   server i can buy (ide-raid compatible with linux, of course..)?
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> kind regards,
> rodi.
>
>

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