I know this has been discussed ad infinitum, but now I can't seem to find 
the answer in any archives, so I apologize for asking again:

How would I go about configuring Amanda to not use a tape drive?  I plan to 
dump files to a mounted Samba filesystem so that my company's Windows 
backup system will write them to tape.

I would expect to do something like configure that Samba mountpoint as the 
holding disk, and have the Window server delete the contents of that 
directory after it's been stored.  However, amdump doesn't seem to like 
"/dev/null" as the tapedev (it never actually moves past the estimate 
stage).

Also, is there any good way to set a soft limit to the size of the output 
files?  I set up a tapetype that I think may do the trick, but since amdump 
won't actually start the dumps I don't know if it worked or not:

    define tapetype SAMBA {
        comment "Fake file allocation to a Samba share"
        length 8000 mbytes
    }

Many thanks in advance,
-- 
Kirk Strauser

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