Thank you, Stefan. I'm about to test it.

However, does this implementation support dump spreading to multiple vtapes?

If it doesn't, the lenght of my tapetype definition must be larger than my
largest dump, correct?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Rodrigo Pipoli

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <monitor AT oops.co DOT at>
To: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: Use hard drive


> Hi, Rodrigo,
>
> on Dienstag, 27. April 2004 at 15:28 you wrote to amanda-users:
>
> RP> Good morning.
>
> RP> I have no tape drive and would like to use my hard drive to store
backups.
> RP> I've used a DLT40 in the past and I have some experience with AMANDA.
>
> RP> I would like to know if it's possible to do so, what partitioning
method you
> RP> sugest and potential problems this implementation might bring (does
recovery
> RP> works alright?).
>
> It is possible. Consult the file HOWTO-FILE-DRIVER in the docs-directory
> of your current amanda-tarball.