R.M. Evers said:
>
> 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.
>
I'm doing backups to disk on a box that is ide-raid1, it works just fine.
Look at the docs for info on the file driver. I found a writeup by searching
in google groups on how to simulate a tape changer to disk. So basically I
have 5 folders that are defined as tapes, so I have five days worth of
backups on disk. My box is not rack mountable, however, it should be trivial
to find a system like this that you can buy, I just looked at
penguincomputing.com and they have a 2U system you can equip with up to 6
SATA IDE drives.

HTH,
Josh